Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over a decade, Photographer Richard Avedon's elegant, epicene high-fashion pictures have set the slick tone for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Now it turns out that all along Avedon has been disgusted by the affluent America he celebrates. To register his revulsion, he got together with James Baldwin (who was his old classmate in The Bronx's prestigious De Witt Clinton High School) to plan a work that would "expose the corruption in American life. I am fascinated by decadent faces." Baldwin's brief text is oddly irrelevant, obviously hasty, too often drawn...
...cracked even such Republican metropolitan areas as Indian- apolis and Columbus, where the G.O.P. suffered from lack of organization and apathy toward Goldwater. Yet despite the prediction of a huge Johnson victory, Democratic ward leaders proved far from complacent, turned out their labor and minority blocs in spectacular fashion to produce comfortable voting cushions. Johnson rolled up a record 400,000-vote margin in Philadel- phia, some 70,000 better than Jack Kennedy had done. He won New York City by a whopping 1,300,000, Baltimore by 155,000 (more than half of his hefty Maryland margin...
...that Celestino's four pains are merely Montherlant's notion of a heart attack. Not so. The police come, flip poor Celestino over, and discover "four thin clean holes which might have been made by a knife or sword." Has Celestino been murdered in some highly symbolic fashion? Apparently not; nor is there any hint that the supernatural is involved. Celestino's death is, rather, superliterary. He is the first character in the history of the novel to be killed by a wholly nonexistent symbol. This is artistic anarchy, which is not a satisfactory way to write...
...graceful figure with closely cropped head and a wellcut grey suit advances to the speaker who grasps his hand in reference fashion and cues the obedient crowd for noisy cheers. Meanwhile, a piano and a drum increase the noise level a couple of decibels and add the final touch to a scene straight from The Last Hurrah...
...quickly from the meeting room. Once in the hall he began to run with his arms flat by his sides. (The impression was of a speeded-up film of a man walking in huge strides.) He ran to the elevator and, on the ground floor, sprinted in this peculiar fashion to his car. He arrived at the funeral on time...