Word: idiom
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Piano is exaggerating only a bit when he says that "Chicago invented modern architecture, invented modernity after the fire." The Great Fire of 1871 wiped away large stretches of the city and opened them for rebirth in a modern industrial and high-rise idiom. There was nothing particularly modern about the original Art Institute, a Beaux Arts culture palace from 1893. But it symbolized the determination of the city's élite to rebuild Chicago as a cultural force to be reckoned with. Over the years it was expanded frequently. Now the 264,000-sq.-ft. addition of the Modern...
That puts a lot of pressure on the prose, but Whitehead, whose writing earned him a MacArthur "genius" grant in 2002, makes the surface idiom-rich and plenty compelling. Benji is a Coke fiend (the drink, not the drug - he's a good kid), and 1985 was the year of New Coke, an announcement that hit him hard. "It was as if someone had popped the top of the world," he says, "and let all the air out." The simile perfectly fits the crime...
...film critic Vinayak Chakraborty says that is highly unlikely; Bollywood's vocabulary, he says, is entirely different than western cinema's. "The Oscars are unlikely to change anything for Bollywood. The Oscars have their own cinematic idiom that tells stories in a particular way. It's different from the Indian idiom which is larger than life and melodramatic." Film director Deol adds, "At the end of the day, [India's] big studios and big filmmakers know their market well, they know where the revenues lie. They will continue to make films for India and for the NRI [non-resident Indian...
...Hall, which shares space with the Lincoln Center Film Society, the Juilliard School of Music and the School of American Ballet, spent the past 40 years locked inside a squat stretch of travertine that would have been perfect for an FBI fingerprint lab. Completed in 1969 in the design idiom called Brutalism, it ran more than half the length of a city block with hardly a grace note or welcoming gesture. To make matters worse, a heavy pedestrian bridge that connected it to the main Lincoln Center campus, across 65th Street, cast a broad swath of that street into permanent...
...have influenced how America hears the voice of truth and authority [Jan. 26]. But there were others who set the stage. We cannot ignore the influence of Southern-raised black televangelists. And even more so, James Weldon Johnson's famous poem "The Creation," which is written in the black idiom: And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world. Paul Moore, North San Juan, Calif...