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13. "It has found important new techniques in picture-making and story-telling ... It is not afraid to say the same thing twice if twice-telling reveals a fourfold truth ... It is a work of art created by grown people for grown people."
14. "With its lost...straw-clutching outcasts, its bullying and later blinded magnate, its endless rain of symbolic and allegorical smallshot, its scarred and almost sceneryless universe, [this work] can be most variously interpreted--somewhat after the fashion of the blind men and the elephant."
15. "[The building] has hit [the city] with the force of an architectural meteorite. No question that it's there ... You turn a corner, and--pow!--an apparition appears in glass and half-shiny silver...massively undulating, something that seems...to have been dropped from another cultural world."
16. "Whether or not [he] had written down the Armageddon of the West, he had showed up the lightweight poetry dominating American magazines ... [His] poem went off like a bomb in a genteel drawing-room, as he intended it to."
17. "He had perfect pitch and perfect rhythm. His improvised melodies and singing could be as lofty as a moon flight or as low-down as the blood drops of a street thug dying in the gutter."
18. "She not only appropriated styles, fabrics and articles of clothing that were worn by men but also, beginning with how she dressed herself, appropriated sports clothes as part of the language of fashion. One can see how her style evolved out of necessity and defiance."
19. "Nothing could deflect her from what she believed to be her sacred mission: to 'chart the graph of the heart' through movement. 'That driving force of God that plunges through me is what I live for,' she wrote, and believed every word of it."
20. "[He] experimented with virtually every technique of 20th century music: tonal, polytonal and 12-tone serialism. He reinvented and personalized each form while adapting the melodic styles of earlier eras to the new times. In the end, his own musical voice always prevailed."
21. "She was far more than a clown. Her mobile face could register a whole dictionary of emotions; her comic timing was unmatched; her devotion to the truth of her character never flagged. She was a tireless perfectionist."
SNOW WHITE MARTHA GRAHAM LOUIS ARMSTRONG MILES DAVIS SEAGRAM BUILDING GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO THE GREAT GATSBY T.S. ELIOT MARY QUANT BLUE POLES: NUMBER 11, 1952 CITIZEN KANE PABLO PICASSO COCO CHANEL RALPH ELLISON LUCILLE BALL GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ IGOR STRAVINSKY SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? OKLAHOMA! WAITING FOR GODOT
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