Word: ishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marjorie and Little Edmund (1928), Charles Tarbell. A metaphor for powerlessness? A glum child (a Gore-ish blond!) is dandled on the knee of a large adult...
...majority of Chant purchasers are ages 16 to 25, seemingly hooked on Gregorian's timeless, otherworldly quality. Angel has shrewdly given the album a New Age-ish appeal, with a Magritte-like cover painting of brown-robed clerics suspended in space and an ad campaign with the theme "Prepare for the Millennium." The basic appeal of the album, says Father Jerome Weber, a Catholic priest and an expert on chant, is "simplicity, purity and mysticism. There is an intuition of the beyond, both in the recording and in the way people are hearing...
...graces the cover. When there is talk of lunching at the Royalton hotel -- which houses New York's famously soigne publishing-world eatery, 44 -- Zlata asks, beaming, "Is that where the models are?" But her giddy, girlish mood is dampened when the French publishing liaison, assuming a Naomi Wolf-ish posture, informs Zlata that "models aren't people to emulate. They are obsessed with their bodies, not with what's up here," she adds, pointing to her head...
...urbanites with such courses as Start Your Own Cheese Business or Mini Goat Farm and Design Your Own Jewelry: Bead Stringing. Among the 70 seminar participants seated in the hotel's ballroom -- a drab hall in which one suspects no ball has ever been held -- are a few hippie-ish girls, a handful of senior citizens and a long-nailed Whoopi Goldberg look-alike who spots Davis and whispers incredulously to her neighbor, "That's Nixon's daughter...
...There have been stereotypes of male and female-ish concentrations," the student said. "People tend to carry those stereotypes into the classroom...