Word: pedanticism
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What interests me especially about the Avatar case is that students who participate in disruptive demonstrations are constantly asked by more moderate elements of our society why they don't present their complaints through regular channels. The people who built Avatar from nothing were using one of these legitimate channels...
Bike Boy, The Nude Restaurant, and other 1967 films by Andy Warhol. There is a sublime moment in The Nude Restaurant where an idealistic peace-nik turns to the magnificent Taylor Mead and says, "All war protestors are beautiful." Mead, who thinks of war protestors as so many warm male...
This is an exception to the usual run of art books in that it is not overpriced, nor just an eclectic collection of plates designed for display, but a pertinently illustrated history of drawing that would be useful both to the artist and someone who merely likes to draw. Professor...
But the secret of Falstaff's miraculous funnies doesn't end there. The phenomenon of Falstaff is that the composer, Verdi, and his librettist, Boito, changed roles. Verdi composed like a playwright and Boito wrote like a musician. Take away all the words from Falstaff and you will still know...
It is no great liability that trim, urbane, greyingly handsome Kingman Brewster, at 48, looks rather as if he had been type-cast by Otto Preminger for the job of chief salesman and spokesman for Yale. An eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant, he is every inch the patrician...