Word: romanticized
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TM: Andrew and Dennis did, and the thing that I brought to it was the fact that I knew guys like Leon when I was younger. That's where I came up with the Courvoisier as his drink, and the fact that he likes romantic candles, and the fact that...
"She's the kind of person you see in a movie, and it's like, wow!" says Crowe, revving into high-ecstatic mode. "Yet for someone that beautiful, she doesn't lead with her looks. Her silent moments are as great as when she speaks. Everybody says 'Audrey Hepburn' when...
Each of the four guest rooms is decorated in an Afro-centric theme. The sunny Ashante Suite features African artifacts and textiles and hauntingly beautiful sculptures. Visitors tell Greenwood that staying in the Black Memorabilia Suite--with its old quilts, rag dolls and Louis Armstrong wax record from the 1940s...
It is this assumption that the Institute of Contemporary Art attempts to contradict with its most recent show, From a Distance: Approaching Landscape, a selection of works by 13 contemporary artists. The curators assert that the traditional, romantic notion of landscape, while extinct, has been subsumed into our technological culture...
...Distance, these hand-me-down conceptions are consistently subverted. The show is a visual diagram of a vicious cycle, of humanity's destruction of nature, and nature's unrelenting growth over humanity. Arturo Herrera's biomorphic felt wall sculpture, "Behind the House I," is the demonic overextension of romanticism's untouched sublime, displaying a terrifying kudzu-like growth which crowds the visual plane with drooping, sinewy forms. David Akiba's superb nature photographs depict a similarly infernal tangle of branches, reminiscent of Jackson Pollock. Roxy Paine's naturalistic miniatures, as exacting as neoclassical gardens, reckon with human pollution: a plot...