Word: fleetingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOAN DIDION approaches writing like an impressionist painter. She places small dots quietly, precisely, to form distinct images. But step back from the painting, and the scene blurs. It is as if she washed her canvas with color, softening the detail, leaving an intense but somehow fleeting emotional moment. Like...
Now the persuaders seem to be making a comeback. A television commercial for children's toys included the subliminal message "Get it!" until the Federal Communications Commission issued a warning against further TV or radio subliminations. In the movie The Exorcist the image of a death mask was flashed...
Collecting great art has always been a rich man's hobby, the province of the Medicis, the Morgans and the Mellons. For others, the only time the price is right, or at least affordable, is that fleeting moment between discovery and celebrity. The early part of the century, when...
But philosophical fame, like other kinds, proved fleeting. When the swords were sheathed and the flowers withered in the 1970s, Marcuse's reputation faded just as fast as it had bloomed. When he died at 81 last week following a stroke in West Germany, he had virtually no influence...
JOAN DIDION approaches writing like an Impressionist painter. She places small dots quietly, to form distinct images. But step back from the painting, and the scene blurs. It is as if she washed her canvas with color, softening the detail, leaving an intense but somehow fleeting emotional moment. Like the...