Word: minimalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reports"). "Her designs are like Barbie-slash-Hello Kitty with Liberty of London mixed in," gushes designer Betsey Johnson. "Kind of Brigitte Bardot and beyond." Translation: low-cut frocks made of girlish fabrics such as dotted swiss and gingham, in pale pinks and blues that run completely counter to minimalist chic. Even her ex is applauding her new venture. "I'm a big fan," Seinfeld told TIME...
Without that almost clairvoyant amendment by Cooper, we would be left with a very different impression of the modernist Ellsworth Kelly. By his own unabashed admission, Kelly is "minimalist," a title which suggests that his work could be seen as being overly impersonal. But this "immense detachment," as Cooper calls it, is impersonal in the sense of modesty, not purposeful indifference...
...wonder. Armed with analog Casio synthesizer, Minekawa blends the controlled tones and rhythms of Kraftwerk (to whom she pays homage on the expansive "Kraftpark") with the delicate innocence of 60s French pop-to effects which at times echo likeminded Stereolab and 80s New Wave. Minekawa refines her music along minimalist lines, creating a childlike interplay between melody and rhythm which makes tracks like "Phonobaloon Song" immediately enchanting. But Minekawa's music traces its tendency for reduction to even deeper motivations: employing the otherworldly blips of her analog synthesizers, at times almost piercing or unsettling, to allow us to hear them...
...room in the Gropius Complex, a hulking concrete modernist box designed by renowned architect Walter Gropius runs $3,190. Like Gropius's aesthetic, the accommodations are rather minimalist...
Beyond that, you have to thank all concerned for giving that great minimalist, Bill Murray, his first good role since 1993's Groundhog Day. It's oxymoronically difficult to get laughs out of clinical depression, but as Blume, an industrialist driven to despair by his wealth, his wife and his ghastly children, Murray does it brilliantly. He's also the perfect foil for endlessly up-and-doing Max, who is, perhaps, everything Blume once was, all that he can no longer be. Their eccentricities speak to one another--until they both fall in love with pretty, wistful Miss Cross (Olivia...