Konigsburg uses Margaret Rose's experiences as a springboard to a much more interesting story that involves ideas about art and integrity.
They complained of less light and air, of more noise and traffic, and of a dilution of the Art Deco integrity of the Hearst Magazine Building, a city landmark at 959 Eighth Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets.
At a time when the new President, Ronald Reagan, was a living object of nostalgia for lost verities, and when the increasing media blare was blurring the terms of art and integrity, Schiller turned to the charismatic styles and forms of earlier times.
As press and critical influence wanes into the shadow of Spotify listens, Hype Machine positions and major label playlist lobbying, populism now resoundingly trumps art and integrity in a desperate game where the rules are increasingly tweaked by bare-faced capitalism to favour the banker.
The milieu in which it takes place -- a circle of manly authors attended by nubile handmaidens, brooding about art and integrity and jostling for top-dog status in Manhattan and the Hamptons -- resembles a Paris Review party from 1963, suspended in amber.
We were all thieves — there was no [expletive] … about art or integrity or sensitivity.
Cox, in addition to strongly resembling the character's concept art, had "integrity and poise" appropriate to Juno Eclipse that helped the actor secure the role.
I think the words I would apply to the creative arts - integrity, vision, tenderness, warmth, compassion, surprise, shock, perhaps even violence - can all apply to that area".
Say what you will about art versus commerce, integrity versus selling out — there are far more ignoble compromises than making this many people this happy, ever.
Accordingly, the head of CSG Bridget McConnell and her various councillors should be held accountable, both to the art world, whose integrity they are undermining, and equally to the oppressed minority, whose voices they are irrevocably stifling.
