Word: transcendentalism
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Relying on pleasure as a standard of judgment, Hickey has endorsed without shame some of the great middlebrow passions of the past century, from Liberace to Perry Mason. His essay on Siegfried and Roy, the illusionists who make whole pachyderms dematerialize, is the best meditation on a pop-culture subgenre...
Cap Canaille, Cassis, Opus 200, 1889, is a superb example. The day is fading. The tartans, or lateen-rigged fishing boats, triangular scraps of white sail on the blue, are flocking back to port. The pallid horizon is delicately tinted with pink, lavender, yellow. The foreground, with its purple house...
The power of theater lies in its ability to transport one from the everyday nature of life to a world of the creators’ choice. Many shows employ elaborate sets, detailed costumes and numerous performers, yet never come close to tapping the transcendent power of theater. It is a...
The final piece of the evening was “Boys” by Rick Moody. The short story explores the changing lives of maturing children with a narrative style perhaps closer to poetry than prose. LeBow, who played the father last year in the A.R.T.’s...
For all their newfound sophistication, however, Bis seem to have trouble forging a new niche for themselves. All the charm of their earlier releases has been smothered in the beefier production, which edges quite close to (God forbid) generic alterna-rock. Rin’s vocals on ?...