Word: illusione
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Stability in relations between Beijing and Taipei has long been maintained by the "One China" policy, a sort of don't-ask-don't-tell illusion which holds that they're part of the same sovereign entity - a policy with which Taiwan's anticommunist leaders for years deluded themselves that...
The academic nonsense we can dismiss as an unfortunate extension of a University bureaucracy that requires a steady diet of paper munchies. And as annoying as they may be, applications are a universal part of obtaining employment. But what doesn't make sense is the way that students on this...
Both Dalis--the disruptive youthful genius and the pretentious, whorish old fanatic--are on full view at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., in a show of some 70 works titled "Dali's Optical Illusions." Its organizer, Dawn Ades, is one of the most distinguished historians of surrealism, the movement...
Since a great deal of the effort of modernist painting was devoted to expelling illusion as a fraud, a lie and a cheat on the deeper impulses of art, one can easily see why Dali's illusionism was so bitterly attacked as mere trickery--an imposture made even worse by Dali's flagrant preference for Raphael and even the arch-academic Meissonier over Matisse or Mondrian, and by his impertinent way of calling true-believer modernists les cocus du vieil art moderne, the cuckolds of old modern art. Dali flew into such flak right from the beginning of his career...
capri pants: Unless you've got supermodel-lengthy legs, capris make most girls look squat and dumpy at best. That or like they've just raided the Little Miss section of their local department store. In any case, why anyone would want to create a convincing optical illusion that her...