Word: iconoclasm
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...Parisian conservatory Lycee Lamartine, which he topped off with a year of jazz studies at Boston's rigorous Berklee College of Music, Terrasson mixes a thorough knowledge of the jazz canon--from Cole Porter to Duke Ellington to Miles Davis--with a rich harmonic sense and a carefully reined iconoclasm. On his debut album, Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note), he squeezes fresh insight and nuance out of fossilized tunes like My Funny Valentine, Bye Bye Blackbird and Porter's I Love Paris by accelerating the tempos, throwing in breakneck stops and starts and reassembling the melodies as if shuffling a deck...
...Gordon Rand) have evolved a rapid-fire patter that tongue-ties everyone around them. Smith and Rand do a nifty job of depicting the deepest sibling affinities. They can finish each other's sentences because they are, finally, one creature: that familiar Shaw character, the Bright Young Upstart, whose iconoclasm glides and shimmers rather than pounds and thunders. Unfortunately, others in the cast (Helen Taylor as the twins' icy sister Gloria, with whom the dentist falls in love; Jack Medley as the world's most dexterous waiter) are not quite up to the mark. The Clandon family's eventual reunion...
...this trend? Partly iconoclasm. Partly a misguided attempt at social awareness--often social awareness of a distinct, politically correct kind...
...poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the future filmmaker Luis Bunuel. United in their loathing of bourgeois convention -- Dali and Lorca coined the term putrefact for any stale idea or piece of kitsch that offended their nostrils -- the three were, in fact, very different creatures. Bunuel never lost his anarchic iconoclasm, whereas middle age ended Dali's; but the films they made together (An Andalusian Dog, 1929, and The Golden Age, 1930) remain classics of provocation. For a few years, Lorca and Dali found themselves in a trance of mutually reinforcing narcissism. "The poetic phenomenon in its entirety...
...culture wars" of the '80s and '90s took form in the pivotal year of '68. The key issues are different now -- abortion and gay rights, for example, as opposed to Vietnam and racism -- but the underlying themes still echo the clashes of '68: Diversity vs. conformity, tradition vs. iconoclasm, self-expression vs. deference to norms. "Question authority," in other words, vs. "Father knows best...