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North of Santa Maria Novella, spare a glance at the simple, clean-lined architecture of the Stazione Centrale (main railway station), built in 1935 during Mussolini’s heyday but somehow defying the prevailing monumental bombast of the Fascist regime that you can see in the monstrosity of Milan’s central station.
For one hour they captivated their large audience of children and adults with stunning acrobatics and death defying spins from the rafters-
The Chicago Sun-Times ' Ebert says the themes about defying class and convention don't work: "kids aren't much tuned into that."
The outlier: Rembrandt Age Defying Adult Formula Toothpaste (don't ask about the "Age Defying" part).
Dylan's bluesy album wins accolades for introspective lyrics about mortality and is judged his best work in decades, "attesting to the creative renaissance of an artist still bent on defying expectations and spurning trends" (Edna Gundersen, USA Today ). The Rolling Stones' new songs are called "uninspired retreads" (Richard Cromelin, the Los Angeles Times ), and their much-hyped world tour--which uses giant nude inflatable dolls as set pieces--is pronounced "tasteless" (the Independent ). (See the Stones' tour site.)