Word: crystalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Past recipients of the Lampoon award include John Candy, Mr. T and Robin Williams, as well as "Saturday Night Live" cast members Phil Hartman and Billy Crystal...
Paris designer Marie-Claude Lalique has seen this frenzy close up. When Lalique signed crystal ware and bottles of perfume at Manhattan's tony Bergdorf Goodman store last week, shoppers snapped up nearly 100 items, including $2,750 perfumes and a $4,700 vase. "In two hours we did the kind of business we normally do in six months," said an awed spokeswoman for Lalique's company...
...quiet land. Deep, delicately carved canyons twist through golden walls of sandstone. A tortoise hides in the shade of a Joshua tree. Listen closely and you can hear the sound of a stream trickling through the rocks, over polished pebbles, and into a pool of crystal water...
Applied to mere sullen neurotics who attack others by withholding themselves, passive aggression is an item of banal psychological jargon. But down at its universal level, the term describes an unseen and mischievous jujitsu of history. It suggests the potent emotional antimatter that begins to glow like a dark crystal when people become disconnected from, and learn to mistrust or hate, the powers that control them (government, political process, corporation, parent, spouse...
...Here crystallization means not so much synthesis and formation as a mode of representation in which objects are viewed as though through a crystal. His images, especially in "Bird Cloud" (1926), appear refracted. Rather than showing various perspectives at once as the Cubists attempted to do, Feininger merely wanted to accentuate and flatten light planes, exaggerating them like a caricaturist would and rendering each with a different solid block of color before reassembling the pieces...