Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leather is expensive: a Lauren prairie skirt costs $1,000; a leather blazer from Yves St. Laurent also carries a $1,000 tag. But leather jackets with embroidered eagles, by Parisian Designer Claude Montana, priced at up to $2,400, sold out in two weeks last fall at Bloomingdale's in New York. Retailers report that the priciest items sell best. Alan Bilzerian, owner of two stores in Boston and Worcester, Mass., claims: "The customer wants one incredible piece. This will become a piece from the '80s, the way a Bauhaus or Corbusier was a piece from...
...white and blue boulevardier. his native good sense sharpened with Parisian wit, Thomson deftly sidesteps the question of his reaction to all the tributes: "I don't know what my emotions are. I don't give them names. If you give names to your feelings, then you are stuck with them." Chatting with fellow Composer Philip Glass-whose opera Satyagraha has been the most discussed piece of the year-he succinctly bridges the gap between his own down-home aesthetic and Glass's new-wave minimalism: "Glass makes an opera in Sanskrit, and I make an opera...
...truly need a true sex?" His newest discoveries, due out in book form shortly, are a series of 18th century cases in which men asked the Parisian authorities to imprison their wives or children. Says Foucault, with considerable understatement...
...died in 1927), it would seem very rash to deny that Atget (pronounced At-jay) was one of the great artists of the 20th century. But there is nothing to suggest that he thought so himself. In his old age, he was much admired in the more advanced Parisian cultural circles; the surrealists, for instance, loved the mystery of his street scenes, with their pervasive sense that Something (the surrealist merveilleux) was about to break into the world round the corner, at the end of the perspective, out of scrutiny. But Atget said-or, at any rate, wrote-nothing about...
...task of making photographs, some on commission and others ad lib, of France, especially the part of France that lay in Paris and within a radius of 50 miles around it. They were not meant to be tourist views-he never, for instance, photographed that most distinctive of all Parisian "sights," the Eiffel Tower. Nor were they meant to reveal spectacular oddities; there are no extreme closeups, wrenching details or aerial views in Atget, and the lens of his old-fashioned camera was always pitched at the height of a small man. Consistently, his work declares that anyone might have...