Word: daringness
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What the exhibition offers, really, is the ultimate challenge to our sensibilities. Mapplethorpe photographed his life and the life around him. His still-lifes depict beauty and intense eroticism. His portraits of celebrities and friends are marked by highly aestheticised definition and exaggerated characterization. He forces us to ask ourselves...
Nocturnes for the King of Naples, his second novel, was written in a mood of gay fantasy. It was turned down by 12 publishers before it found its way to Michael Denneny, an editor at St. Martin's Press. Denneny was mesmerized by White's poetic prose and daring story...
Bok's shortcomings are most obvious when he attempts to move from describing problems to prescibing solutions. Readers expecting a visionary plan for rechanneling economic and social pressures to push universities in the right direction will be disappointed by Bok's list of stopgaps. It is as though his natural...
The first sign of trouble came barely five minutes after Mikhail Gorbachev opened the 28th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party last week. A delegate from the far eastern region of Magadan proposed an unprecedented resolution, calling for nothing less than the resignation of the entire Central Committee and its...
Arts leaders are pondering new maneuvers: mounting an aggressive ad campaign against North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, an enemy of the NEA, or taking NEA money but publicly disavowing the pledge they have signed, thus daring the Government to litigate First Amendment issues. The leaders agree on one thing: just...