Word: estheticism
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His movie, The Bridge, which premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, captures a handful of jumpers as they launch themselves over the railing. His aim, Steel told the San Francisco Chronicle, was to challenge audiences to "talk and think about suicide in profoundly different...
February 1976: Scott Meadow ’77, an “esthetic bodybuilder,” wins Mr. New England, aided by a diet of egg whites and water.
Was Johns' Flag, 1955, a flag or a painting? The American flag is the best-known abstraction in the world; is a painting of an abstraction a representation? The questions twist back to Rene Magritte's famous brainteaser, the painting of a pipe with "This is not a pipe" written...
Rich, who bitterly opposes the Disney park, admits that "the issues of money, urban sprawl and environmental disruption that attend the park are between the Virginia voters and their consciences." (Their consciences appear clear: the Virginia legislature has overwhelmingly approved the idea.) But "the esthetic issues dramatized by Disney's...
Why Jimmy and not, say, Daniel Day Lewis: Well, he's a bleeding-heart liberal who does something about it. I like that. On a visceral, esthetic level, Daniel Day works for me. But I haven't done anything about it.