Word: purism
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...purist; he doesn't own a DVD player or VCR. "It's important to go out to see these films on a screen with an audience," he says. He prefers this small theater with no concession stand to the hard-sell accommodations of the multiplex chains. Croux's romantic purism is Paris incarnate; the popularity of no-frills, revival-house moviegoing helped make cinema's birthplace unique as the film capital of the world. A typical week in the City of Lights offers some 200 examples of second-run and repertoire fare from around...
...White Stripes) has gone retro, inspired by ancient garage rock and punk. Sanneh allows that in many cases the latter milieu cuts better albums. But the story also seems to equate the mix-and-match stylistic approach of the popular bands with innovation and originality, and the apparent purism of the fringe with originality's opposite. Of Linkin Park, Sanneh writes...
...character out of mediocrity and the everyday. With imaginative songs such as “No Regrets,” an allegorical fairy tale in which Aesop reflects upon the repetitive, unspectacular life he leads, Labor Days is a creative apex of independent hip-hop, a rare instance of purism becoming interesting...
...changed course, abandoning Purism, as he called it, for something more robust and sculptural. His spartan, lightweight architecture turned rustic, with heavy walls of brick and fieldstone and splashes of bright color. He discovered the potential of reinforced concrete and made it his own, leaving the material crudely unfinished, inside and out, the marks of wooden formwork plainly visible. Concrete allowed Le Corbusier to explore unusual shapes. The billowing roof of the chapel at Ronchamp, France, resembles a nun's wimple; the studios of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard push out of the building like huge cellos...
...Dalai Lama cooled toward Shugden is debated. Some cite the influence of the state oracle, a deity who speaks to Tibetan leaders through a monk in a trance state. Less exotically, the Shugdenites' purism hinders the High Lama's attempts to unify the Tibetan diaspora by reducing differences among its four main Buddhist schools. The Dalai Lama told TIME that he was worried about people's seeking "external help" from a protector spirit while neglecting Buddha's teaching of compassion and wisdom: "Some people worship toward [Shugden] almost equal with the Buddha. That's a disgrace...