Word: rococo
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...triumphs. The title of the title essay comes from Wolfe's discussion of how young people go about hooking up today, but the book also has chapters discussing the implications of neurobiology and ("Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died") the fallacies of American intellectuals ("In the Land of the Rococo Marxists") and the rise of Silicon Valley ("Two Young Men Who Went West"). A sample of Wolfe's short fiction, the novella "Ambush at Fort Bragg," appears right after the "My Three Stooges" chapter, as if to say, judge my fiction for yourself, you skeptics! For some reason, Wolfe...
DIED. DAME BARBARA CARTLAND, 98, best-selling romance novelist whose 723 books sold more than 1 billion copies worldwide; in Hertfordshire, England. Cartland published her first novel in 1925, was dubbed the queen of romance fiction and became beloved for creating virginal heroines in rococo plotlines. Her ability to write a novel a week, dictating to secretaries while reclining on a sofa, earned her a glamorous, bejeweled lifestyle, a host of pink gowns and a bit part in a real-life rococo drama: step-grandmother to Princess Diana...
Some of the more rococo NYE-Y2K fetes I've seen advertised suggest a collaborative extravaganza mounted by Donald Trump and Emperor Bokassa...
Kotova is scheduled to make her New York City debut this Saturday at Carnegie Hall, where she will play Tchaikovsky's showy Variations on a Rococo Theme with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, followed by a barnstorming tour that takes her all the way from Brazil to Japan. Though she already seems well launched toward stardom, anyone who expects her to take the low road to popular acclaim is in for a surprise. "I am asked so many times," she says, "what do you think, that classical music is dead, dead, dead? Not at all. It's starting to bloom again...
...added new materials--tubular steel, Bakelite, aluminum foil--to the design vocabulary. Up to that point, the fashion in theater decoration might have been characterized as Italian Baroque Moorish Greek Renaissance Pagoda. Pick any two, and you had a movie palace. Deskey resisted Rothafel's bludgeoning insistence on "Portuguese Rococo" and instead dressed the place for Fred and Ginger, crafting a sleek temple dedicated not to Old World solemnity but to machine-age speed and sheen...