Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most striking was their yearning to make art in permanent places-the walls of caves. This expansion from the body to the inert surface was in itself a startling act of lateral thinking, an outward projection of huge cultural consequence, and Homo sapiens did not produce it quickly. As much time elapsed between the first recognizable art and the cave paintings of Lascaux and Altamira, about 15 to 20 millenniums, as separates Lascaux (or Chauvet) from the first TV broadcasts. But now it was possible to see an objective image in shared space, one that was not the property...
While Coffey's proposals bear some similarities to those of his opponents, he definitively avoids all outward appearances of the political smoothness attributed to his opponents...
This nascent outward-bound movement even has its own magazine, Transitions Abroad, which for several years has been targeted at American college students who want to work overseas. Founder and editor Clayton Hubbs, 58, takes it for granted that campus hunger for foreign-job information is surging. "I would make a guess that the numbers of those going abroad have increased between 10% to 25% over the past five years," he says. "But what is more interesting to note is the areas that have emerged as the preferred destinations. In the past, Europe was the place students automatically gravitated...
...course of four decades, the poses and postures of hip have moved outward from the back rooms of a few cities to the great plains of America's cultural space. Ideas and style statements that 40 years ago might have languished for a while in jazz clubs and coffeehouses now move in nanoseconds from the dance clubs and gangsta corners. Through MTV and the trendier magazines, and whatever other express routes the mass media command, they get passed over to mass-marketers who shear off the rough edges and ship them to the malls. So body piercing and ambient technomusic...
Haitink's recording of the second symphony begins a little cold-blooded for my taste, perhaps adhering to Brahms' wishes of putting "a black edge around the score to give an outward show of grief," but it quickly picks up more and more of the infectious charm that characterizes this beloved piece...