Word: utopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Designing safe inside a creative cocoon, impervious to commercial flux, is an almost utopian ideal. It requires a nearly impossible combination: flinty individuality, a healthy business base, a viable commercial identity and a strong stylistic hand. Rei Kawakubo of Comme des garcons and Yohji Yamamoto have both been around long enough to be considered less revolutionaries than revisionist classicists, but their new collections showed them to be as restless and clever as ever. Kawakubo sent out dozens of outfits with unexpected lapels and seams like overgrown ski trails, most in combinations of black, red and orange, so the show seemed...
...seem a far cry from Walt Disney's original conception. But in a deeper sense, it may be its ultimate realization. For if the Disney parks of Florida and California offer squeaky-clean visions of a perfect society, the Disneyland that flourishes in Tokyo is even cleaner and more utopian. Yet even as the Japanese version reproduces virtually every feature of its American models, it turns them into something entirely Japanese. Melvin, Buff and Max, the antlered commentators at the Country Bear Jamboree, speak in the grave basso profundos of Kurosawa samurai. Alice in Wonderland has Oriental features. Frontierland...
...University. It should not permit TFs with repeatedly low and unacceptable CUE guide ratings to teach until they present evidence that they have seen the light and amended their ways. Once again, however, the financial aid structure of graduate study makes such a simple yet effective suggestion seem utopian...
Everywhere I went I saw paintings of a wondrous "Crystal Palace"--so I kept searching for this utopian structure. Unfortunately, it has not yet been built. Fortunately it may be completed by 1988, thanks to your support, the helpful staff explained...
...miracle," the dissidents and mystagogues of what came to be known as heftige Malerei (violent painting), the political artists, the conceptualists with chips on their shoulders. Some were raised in the divided city; others had been drawn there by the Free University or, more generally, by the anarchic and utopian Bohemia of the '60s: the Fluxus group and its best-known member, Joseph Beuys, with his shaman's wands and dead hares; Eugen Schonebeck, with his images of mutants and cripples; K.H. Hodicke, who made fervently swiped homages to Max Beckmann; and Georg Baselitz, creator of clumsy, wistful figures stumbling...