Word: transcendentalized
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That such contradictions exist in the gifted and complex man from Queens is not all that puzzling. For the querulous Cuomo is often at odds with himself. At 53 he still wrestles with unanswered questions about the direction and purpose of his life. Whether to run for President is but...
Or were the Marcos shoes, like the billions of stolen dollars, merely grotesque? The Russian word poshlost suggests the transcendent vulgarity at work in the Marcos spectacle. Poshlost is something preposterously overdone but without self-knowledge or irony. It is comic and sad and awful. An 18th century French merchant...
Scholarly cinema fans should rewind their Bergman and Eisenstein and grab ahold of some textual analysis of this year's crop of TSFs. BETTER OFF DEAD (Sack Charles) is truly a watershed TSF, a self-referential picture that turns the genre on its head like nothing since David Smith. Students...
At the heart of the crisis among Blacks is the death of a sacred understanding of the world. It was this ethno-theocentric vision which provided the foundation for moral and cognitive order in our communities. We have lost a meaningful sense of the transcendent or the Holy, and the...
The new wave of immigrants, says former California Governor Jerry Brown, is gradually changing the country's angle of vision. "The Pacific Rim is becoming the focal point for economic and political concerns," he says. "This immigration will eventually move Europe to a lower priority in the way we look...