Word: quasimodo
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...Hunchback of Notre-Dame”—which actually lacks the do-it-yourself. While about half of the other works in the exhibition are somewhat participatory, the viewer cannot actually use the kit. Without enabling participation, the piece only suggests that the viewer might act as Quasimodo. Considered in the terms of this piece, the art gallery is not a stage, and the viewers are not actors. Instead, the gallery became a museum of theater, firmly keeping viewers separate from the spectacle. Consequently, while “The World as a Stage” offers different ways...
...outraged observers with a collection that questioned the very shape of women's bodies. Known as the bump collection, it deformed the silhouette with Quasimodo-style padded lumps placed strangely and strategically on models' backs, shoulders and hips. For spring 2004, when every designer was sending cliches of femininity down the runway, Kawakubo left many in the audience perplexed by presenting models in voluminous skirts cut from traditional Japanese fabrics. Instead of blouses, they wore sheer swaths of tulle over bare breasts. Even Kawakubo's perfumes defy convention. Odeur 53, created in 1998, has notes of nail polish and burnt...
...awful. No, it’s really awful. You have no sense of fashion or taste. I could have shaved myself. I can take care of myself so much better than you people. I’m not going to this photo shoot. I look like Quasimodo. I look like Rocky at the end of Rocky...
...will miss Blair Hornstine at Harvard this fall, Blair Hornstine least of all. Her life would have been miserable, as Quasimodo in the ivory tower, the H-bomb for first-year women waiting for word of their roommates and a time bomb for Harvard’s legal counsel—no doubt relieved that Harvard was spared the dreaded little envelope, a lawsuit rejecting Harvard’s rejection...
When Keret began writing, his psyche was certainly not in a healthy place. To be more precise, it was in a basement five floors underground, working completely alone for 48-hour shifts on a job the Israeli Army code-named Quasimodo...