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Each September fashion magazines philosophize on the look of the fall season in somewhat highfalutin editorials. This year the style manifestoes all say austerity is in -- we wouldn't have guessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Gift to Be Simple | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...because he is blind -- then lumbered it with portentous yet unpursued references to battered women, child abuse, academic plagiarism, organized crime and the Bataan Death March (not to mention Beethoven's deafness, Baudelaire's profligacy and the evolutionary significance of the animal in the title). Despite these highfalutin distractions, the story trudges along to its always foreseeable end: the old man dies but lives on in the young woman he has persuaded to make something better of herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patient Is Impatient | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...just one. I think influence kind of goes underground. You think that you're influenced by someone and then you find out that it's someone else who influenced you. There have been influences throughout my life. One of my earliest influences was--this sounds really highfalutin, but it's true--was Shakespeare. I read Shakespeare before I was told it was difficult and it felt remarkably alive. I felt it was incredible that this man could write poetry and tell a story at the same time...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: RITA DOVE'S EXPERIMENT | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

...Thesaurus" is a mouthful; it does not roll trippingly on the tongue. Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature. Thesaurus means treasury or storehouse, but nobody calls Nicholas Brady Secretary of the Thesaurus or says, "Dear, pack up your winter underwear and lock it in the thesaurus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Satisfying Verbomania | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...loose group that included John Sloan, George Luks and William Glackens. Not one of them ever painted an ash can, but they did believe, in a general way, that the artist should work from life as it was lived in the big dirty city and stay away from highfalutin symbolism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Passion For Islands | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

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