Word: delusionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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8 Polaroid campaign This year's print ads whimsically position the camera as not just a quick processor but also a great shatterer of delusion. In one of the ads, two parents speculate about their daughter's new college boyfriend. Surely, he must be respectable. The Polaroid-provided reality? He...
2 The Beckett Festival. For Samuel Beckett, life was a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt. But no event this year had more artistic vitality than the New York City staging by Dublin's Gate Theatre of 19 Beckett works--from the 40-second Breath...
No matter how intensely the bitterness for civilization's trespass conflicted with the sweetness of Kozelek's and Red House Painters' presence on Sunday night, nothing plagued the performance more than the choice of venue. With its blatant hybridization of Roman Mythology and medieval macabre, complete with apsidal carvings on...
For Chin, naming was vitally important. Just as blacks had appropriated formerly derogatory terms--from "Negro" to "black" itself--as consciously chosen emblems of racial pride and identity, Chin tried to turn the racist label of "Chinaman" into one Chinese-Americans could claim as their own. Instead, hyphenation carried the...
The mental block that plagued us in the imaginative quest for higher office was the delusion that politics is an end in itself. After all, it is very easy to equate it to gaming and make a sport of it. The farcical nature of Washington life, combined with personalities galore...