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...student pieces pushed the creative limits of movement. In “Findings,” Waterhouse and Yamaguchi invigorated the paus-duex by straining to appear aloof but constantly remaining interconnected. The pair was visually linked through their reciprocal blue and black tops and bottoms, but battled to balance this connection with the aloof music of Mozart. The resulting tension reinterpreted the traditional love duet, making it contemporary and exciting...
Perhaps most remarkable in the case of Morgan is the refinement of taste which produced so intimate a collection, no less fine for its subdued key. So grotesque an aesthetic faux paus as the acquisitions of the William Randolph Hearst dynasty, or even as sincere but visionless an affair as the John Ringling Museum testifies to how far wrong the best intentioned affluence can go. But J. Pierpont Morgan, caring not at all for magnitude, sought quality alone...
...first issue in 1725. His publication became the most popular of its kind in New England and reached the then enormous circulation of 60,000. His calendar included such bits of wit as this: "Dec. 7-10. 'Ladies take heed, Lay down your fans, And handle well, Your warming paus...
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