Word: gestalt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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gestalty: (gesh-TAL-tee) adj., resembling themes examined by the Gestalt school of psychotherapy...
Three booths away, Phyllis Light, a telepathic healer with a resume that includes certification as a rebirther, Gestalt therapist, acupressurist and neurolinguistic programmer, talks about helping a client get a part of him unstuck from where it got lodged 19 lifetimes ago. Ouch...
Long before this generation of young hipsters started reveling in the Vegas gestalt, certain intellectuals were taking seriously the city's no-holds- barred urban style. It was 25 years ago that a little-known architect and professor, Robert Venturi, returned to Yale with his two dozen student acolytes after a remarkable 10-day expedition to Las Vegas, where they stayed at the Stardust. His influential 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas, immediately made Venturi famous as a heretical high-culture proponent for the ad hoc, populist design of the Strip -- the giant neon signs, the kitschy architectural allusions...