Apotheosis
APOTHEOSIS is the conferring, through official, ritual, or iconographic means, of the status of a god upon a mortal person. The Greek verb apotheoun appears first in the writings of the his...
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American poet and experimental novelist (b. April 27, 1929, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
—d. May 18, 2006, Brooklyn), made use of devices such as nonchronological structure to illustrate his dictum that "...
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What a double-edged sword 69 Love Songs has become for the Magnetic Fields. Perhaps the apotheosis of Stephin Merritt's clever talents, it is a sublime piece of novelty that manages to transcend it...
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Michael Kirban, a young beverage entrepreneur with affable eyes and the round head of a coconut, sat in the cool shade of a conference room on a recent Tuesday, clutching a box of juice. The box wa...
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Since, these days, even technophobes can get a sneak peek of new albums, release dates have become as irrelevant as the sticker price of a used car: a good place to start, but never set in stone. T...
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Last night, NBC gave America exactly what it thought the country wanted: Jerry Seinfeld, the man who perfected the sitcom and ruined it in the process (like Raymond Carver and the short story). As ...
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Hired to decorate the Senate wing of the Capitol, Constantino Brumidi dipped his paintbrushes into a rainbow of colors and directed teams of painters to create some of the most magnificent artwork ...
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In 1875, Clara Schumann, the widow of the composer Robert Schumann and the most celebrated female pianist of the 19th century, attended a performance of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and afterw...
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In 1875, Clara Schumann, the widow of the composer Robert Schumann and the most celebrated female pianist of the 19th century, attended a performance of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and afterw...
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What does John Updike know about art, anyway? Enough to write about it perceptively. The renowned novelist’s art criticism appears in The New York Review of Books and has been collected in a ...
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What does John Updike know about art, anyway? Enough to write about it perceptively. The renowned novelist’s art criticism appears in The New York Review of Books and has been collected in a...
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Apotheosis
Sorrentino, Gilbert
