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...