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It is likely that one's taste deteriorates under the continuous barrage of vulgarity: many who today admire the dadaists, cubists, surrealists, hard-edge realists, nonobjective and abstract artists would have reviled them, along with a significant percentage of the population, had they been dalive when their paintings first appeared, just as staid, conservative critics condemned the impressionists and advocates of other nouvelles vagues . Is it that we gradually become accustomed to what we first perceive as trash--as vulgarity--and become inured to it, or that we come to understand and, if not enamored of it, at least tolerate it as a legitimate form of expression?
But Bill Haley and Elvis painted Broadway into a corner it never quite got out of: Musicals stood aloof from rock and became, by definition, staid, conservative, middle-aged--something your parents go see on their wedding anniversary.
Free from the confines of the International Festival’s rules and regulations, the Fringe has become synonymous with art that “pushes the envelope,” and it has grown to eclipse its more staid official brother.
She was hired because she's a managerial whiz who helped transform Lucent from a staid spin-off of AT&T into a prototypical bleeding-edge company.
Jerusalem has a staid reputation, but take a stroll in the New City in the area around Ben Yehuda Street and Yoel Salomon Street and you’ll find lots going on most evenings, including a handful of discos, several music bars and “pubs,” and narrow streets congested with tables and thronging with locals and tourists.
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