Word: hermeticism
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7. Steely Dan, "Two Against Nature" Nothing remotely like Becker and Fagen had come along in the 18 years since their last record, and the ease with which they got back in their uniquely alienated groove was a tonic to their contemporaries. Funky and sly, "Two" also gave glimpses of...
Cusack goes back to the marvelous Grosse Pointe Blank with some of the writers, to The Grifters with director Stephen Frears, to the cradle with his sister Joan, who plays a smart, tart role here. That could have resulted in a kind of hermetic insiderism--a desire to break each...
Call me a skeptic, but I have serious doubts about whether Maynard actually had an affair with Salinger in the first place. Hermetic, paranoid authors all tend to look alike--they're all sort of blurred, at least in the photographs. Maybe she had an affair with Thomas Pynchon, thinking...
So you're in the mood to examine architecture as "the public site of social critique" or "the hermetic contemplation of the ritualized object." Or, perhaps your last viewing of a conscientiously arranged collection of photographs ended when the nurse called you in to see the dentist. Either way, the...
Yet it's invigorating too, in the end. "Energy," wrote William Blake, "is eternal delight," and there has never been anything in American art to match the effusive, unconstrained energy of Rauschenberg's generous imagination. Compared with the more pursed, hermetic and self-reflexive Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg is and always...