Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This puffing up of retail lines is in a sense also a dumbing down of legitimate designer fashion, just as the mass repoduction of a famous work of art would blur one's conception of the actual thing. One wonders if fashion would be safer in a museum. Fashion is art, after all. If painting the nude is considered the highest of artistic genres, then clothing the body is in the least soft sculpture. One look at the designs of haute couturiers such as John Galliano for the House of Dior can't help but draw comparisions to the surrealism...
...Just one last thing: Bumper bowling--is this a crutch...
...crossing the line between Cambridge and Somerville on Kirkland Street is always a strange thing. Stepping over that invisible border does more than simply change the street signs from green to blue. It acts as a type of psychological time warp, taking this traveler out of Cambridge 1999 and delivering her into an industrial 1950s town. Instantly, an influx of dilapidated, mint-green, triple-decker houses dot the streets and countless abandoned businesses with fading airbrushed signs line up next to one another...
...Kugel: I only listen to one thing, Mozart's Flute Quartet in D Major (K. 285). I have four or five different versions of it, which I alternate. Kishlansky: Old rock n' roll...
...When we ask, if there's anything from this trip she might think about, and go back and buy, she grins and replies, "Not a thing...