bourgeois - August 15, 2008

(adjective) middle-class or reflecting middle-class values.

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In Edward Albee’s The Occupant, a play about the American sculptor Louise Nevelson, a nameless interviewer quizzes the artist on her fame and critical fortunes. He mentions the name “Louise Bourgeois.” Nevelson reacts with dismissive hauteur. The
2008-07-22 14:49:33
Louise Bourgeois in 1990 with her marble
2008-07-22 14:49:33
‘Trike on Green’ by Billie Bourgeois is on display at Caffery Gallery, 4016 Government St., through July. Brunner Gallery, 100 Lafayette St. in the Shaw Center for the Arts, will feature sculpture and installations by Steven Durow and Babette Wattigny
2008-07-20 05:45:21
‘Trike on Green’ by Billie Bourgeois is on display at Caffery Gallery, 4016 Government St., through July.
2008-07-20 05:45:21
Having conquered the women's field at Seward's Mount Marathon for five consecutive summers, Cedar Bourgeois of Seward branched out in her mountain running career Saturday. Bourgeois blazed to a women's course record in Sitka to win the 15th annual
2008-07-20 03:59:52
DUTCHTOWN — Sitting in a lawn chair on the banks of Twin Lakes, Ethan Frazier listened to every word his father and grandfather had to say. “Wait, wait. Get ready, son. Let it sit. Now you’ve got it,” James Frazier said as he talked his son through
2008-08-07 05:56:27
GRAMERCY — Mayor Herman Bourgeois presented aldermen and town employees with plaques after the Louisiana Municipal Association recognized the town’s efforts to upgrade its water system  “We now have a major upgrade in the town’s potable water system,”
2008-08-13 05:54:48
"According to the current exhibit's notes, the artist took the MOMA retrospective as a challenge since she did not wish to be categorized by her retrospective as being at the end of her career. So, at age 71, Bourgeois changed direction and began
2008-08-01 13:22:46
He's right, of course. And that corner of Edinburgh in which Matthew lives and works – the New Town – is indeed the just about nearest thing Scotland has to offer to a bourgeois paradise. Matthew isn't the only one to appreciate this. Throughout
2008-08-06 23:49:30
One of the Gulf Coast's most storied professions has been at the center of a perfect storm that just won't quit.
2008-08-11 02:45:19
Source USA Today
Spring and summer weather in Missouri have been a challenge for growers this year. While many corn and soybean fields have been damaged or not planted at all because of too much rain, and in some cases flooding, some specialty crops have thrived. Some
2008-08-01 21:44:43
Hmmm...seems pretty clear, even through that tortured syntax, that Maliki was supporting Obama's plan for a 16 month timetable. But maybe the Bush administration still heard something different. So for good measure, we ran the
2008-07-21 15:12:01
Source 23/6
STAGE "King Lear." 8 p.m. Friday-Aug. 16, 2 p.m. Aug. 17, Aug. 21-24. Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square. $20-$22; with discounts for students and older adults. 314-534-1111; stlshakespeare.org. Of course, we always can hope, with Shakespeare, that
2008-08-10 08:07:39
In light of Jeff’s good analysis on the South Ossetia conflict I thought I would provide a link and excerpt from my blog The Mustard Seed. There is nothing inherently wrong with the piece as long as people realize that it’s essentially given from the
2008-08-13 04:31:30
The Word of the Day on the web.
The French word bourgeois evolved from the Old French word burgeis, meaning "an ... In medieval times, the bourgeois was typically a self-employed proprietor, small ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois
Pantheon Guitars, Inc. of Lewiston, Maine, builds fine acoustic guitars by Dana Bourgeois. Available now for purchase. See our home page for models & specs, find a ...
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'Quarantania I', bronze sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, 1947-53, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ... Elaine Showalter on Louise Bourgeois ...
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Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century is a PBS documentary series about contemporary visual art in the United States and the artists who make it.
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bourgeois
The Word of the Day in quotes.
In the 1990s, art fell under the influence of a society that was becoming more and more bourgeois: Artists happily turned into conformists

The bourgeois party leaders look at their (party) practices in which the leader decides everything. They do not understand how the Communist party functions.

Capitalism was alien to the intelligentsia. Intelligentsia is a function of monarchy—normal bourgeois societies do not have it

Long hair is precisely a symptom of bourgeois liberalism. Political Instructor Wang has made that very clear

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois ... But I don't think it is at all, especially with Nicolas. It's full of adventure and full of fun.

Although a severe critic of bourgeois democracy, Prof Mukherjee still upheld the highest traditions of parliamentary democracy during his presence in parliament

Like you, I find these camps intolerable, but I find equally intolerable the use made of them every day in the bourgeois press.

Rubinshtein was thoroughly exposed as a rotten compromiser with bourgeois psychology.

Publishers could not openly publish a work by a bourgeois author; the climate at the time did not permit it.

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