Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bottle tops, beer cans, Barbie dolls, barbed wire and tractor seats-to name only a smattering. Gypsy Rose Lee's mink G string sold for $1,500 to a London banker. In the mid-1920s, the firm of Louis Comfort Tiffany dumped carloads of the then unpopular art nouveau glassware that bears his stamp; a well-preserved rare Tiffany lamp today can be worth up to $150,000. By one estimate, the U.S. boasts 22 million collectors of one kind or another, mostly another. There are no junk stores any more, only antique shoppes...
...market. For the past 15 years or so, collectors, dealers, auction houses and their willing accomplices, journalists, have been moved to pleasure, then wonder, and now to a sort of popeyed awe at the upward movement of art prices. If art was once expected to provoke un nouveau frisson, a new kind of shudder, its present function is to become a new type of bullion. Thus, we are told by art industry flacks, people now respect art. They flock to museums to see it; its spiritual value has been confirmed, for millions, by its wondrous convertibility into cash...
...energy companies' local production revenues, and its royalties surged from $1.3 billion in 1974 to $4 billion this year. Coveting more of this wealth for themselves, many Canadians outside the province call Alberta "OPEC North" and refer to its leaders as "blue-eyed sheiks." After traveling throughout the nouveau riche province, TIME Correspondent Ed Ogle reports...
...susceptible to the process that had become a metaphor for the decade--cloning. They knew that they could sell overproduced pseudo-New Wave to most of its fans, artsy fartsy students with plenty of money and charge cards from Mom and Dad, ugly girls without taste or talent, nouveau hipsters who found Talking Heads "well, you kneu, so bizarre...
Shiva Naipaul is most weak where his brother is strongest--the ability to empathize with all the people he writes about. He does not try to understand why a nouveau riche black Kenyan has two freezers (which she never uses), whisky at every meal, gold-painted nails, and an expropriated mansion too large for her needs. He simply finds her ludicrous and tasteless...