Word: esotericism
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ART LOOKS INWARD on itself and finds art, looking in on itself, and back; the artist portrays the artist portraying himself, and lands somewhere in between. Asymptotic maunderings, these, on the ineffable relation between art and the artist that animates Mark Leib's brilliant and vertiginously profound Terry by Terry...
That leaves the most esoteric of Aquinas' "five ways" of proving God, from "contingency." Things can be divided into two categories: "contingent" ones that could either exist or not exist, and "necessary" ones that cannot not exist. The latter is a category of one, namely God. The reason that...
These two films have little in common. One is a documentary on jazz tap dancing, an esoteric film about an esoteric art. The other is a revue of animated shorts, some serious, some funny, but nearly all unique and entertaining. They are reviewed together only as good examples of the...
Walk into any drugstore, although best is the fancy kind, with pretensions, such as are plentiful at the southern end of Brattle Street. An invariable, perhaps immutable progression in the arrangement of the objects will emerge. From the front of the store to the back, from the esoteric to the...
Its tenant, Shelly Glashow, is one of the three recipients of the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics. Had you glanced to your right some ten yards back, you would have been looking into the anteroom of the office of one of the others, Professor Steven Weinberg. His office is much...