Word: salon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serenading an Irish philosopher as he lies dying in bed among linens that depict cartoon rocket ships zooming over planets. Throughout the afternoon and well into the night, visitors come to pay their respects: a grandchild, Rastas, filmmaker Oliver Stone, slackers, alternative rocker Perry Farrell, Webheads. "I run a salon," says Timothy Leary. "Throughout human history, the salon has always been a fermenting place where creative people meet...
While the concept of a salon may be traditional, this particular one can only be described as "late century cyberpunk frat." Over by the patio is a slate-gray pool table perched on construction girders, and out on the lawn is a sensory-deprivation chamber. The garage is less a garage than a World Wide Web command post. Hiding among the overstuffed sofas and comic- book art in the living room are a video-game power glove, the latest issue of Rolling Stone and a Yoda mask. The dining room is dominated by a psychedelic poster from...
...Leonard Stephen Salon, on the third floor at 54 JFK St., was open for business yesterday. But Patisserie Francaise's neighbors on the second floor, the Delhi International Boutique and Yak Arts Unlimited, were not open during their regular hours yesterday...
Constable's paintings were the sensation of the 1824 Paris Salon, and their complex freshness came as a revelation to younger French artists, including the 28-year-old Corot, who was on the verge of departing for Italy. Today it's hard to imagine the delicious feelings of initiation and surrender with which foreign artists once went to Italy. Each view in Rome, every corner of Naples or Latium, seemed impregnated with meaning--by the memory of artists who had painted them before, by the presence of Antiquity and by the mellow beauty of the light. But to see Nature...
MEDIEVAL THEOLOGIANS BELIEVED TEMporal love was a process in which human beings sought an earthly vessel for their spiritual love. Such is the melancholy quest of Washington's anybody-but-Bob salon conservatives, led by Arianna Huffington, who are hunting oh so desperately for a presidential candidate to adore...