Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...metal gray dress, and Mr. Ozawa was batonless, conducting as if summoning some ancient rain spirit. But these were the few rare unconventional elements of BSO's February 8th performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61 and Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, pictures from pagan Russia...
...much like Debussy." That is to say that there was too much late 19th century impressionism and not enough Igor Stravinsky. It's not the type of music that you walk down the Champs-Elysees listening to, which should be evident from the subtitle of the piece, "pictures from Pagan Russia...
Reviewing his agency's work, one is struck by Burnett's penchant for employing a range of masculine archetypes. Some were designed to appeal to female consumers. With the Jolly Green Giant, he resurrected a pagan harvest god to monumentalize "the bounty of the good earth"--and to sell peas. Years later, with the creation of the Doughboy, Burnett employed a cuddly endomorph to symbolize the friendly bounce of Pillsbury home-baking products. Aiming at male audiences in the '50s, a time when filter cigarettes were viewed as effeminate, Burnett introduced a tough and silent tattooed cowboy on horseback...
...superstition is rooted in pagan traditionas well as a number of biblical citations. Mostnotably, Kirchhoff said, the Bible says that Jesuswas crucified on the 13th, the temple of Solomonwas destroyed on the 13th and Eve gave Adam theapple on the 13th...
...about blood and sex again this year as students prepare for the pagan holiday that never ceases to be fashionable...