Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The second track, "Happy Birthday to Me," is the album's most memorable song. The mellow music is reminiscent of Camper's 1985 and 1986 releases, Telephone Free Landslide Victory and Two and Three. The lyrics show Lowery's genuine songwriting talent. He uses extremely down-to-earth images in...
But sadly, Mythical Beasts is just another sneaky coloring book whose purpose is to get kids to (yawn) learn. It offers a bibliography, for Pete's sake. And some of the literary allusions are a little bit esoteric for the ordinary five-year-old monster fan. Five-year-olds are...
The strength of the play lies in Canosa's portrayal of these superficial images of Earthly life and suffering as a dream. Throughout the forty minutes of the play, the overwhelming feeling is one of unreality, as though one were indeed sharing in the dream that Strindberg created. Chaotic, rapid...
THE DENNIS MILLER SHOW (syndicated, weeknights). The former Saturday Night Live newscaster has made a surprisingly smooth transition to the talk-show couch. Miller's esoteric references (from Stephen Sondheim to Herman Melville) are sometimes too self-conscious, but he's hip, intelligent and -- a rarity on TV -- authentically curious...
THE BERLIN WALL is gone, communism is fading into an esoteric academic study and, thus, we move from our reference to Vladimir Lenin's question, "What is to be Done?" to "Fifteen Minutes." Our new weekly magazine retains many of the old features of the "What" while adding many new...