It's quite funny to go overseas and experience the extreme envy and fascination everybody has with Brooklyn.
While fashion in 2014 has swapped mega-platforms and 10in stilettos for midi-heels and pool sliders, extreme footwear, and our fascination with it, is in focus at the museum.
Given the current fascination with extreme sports, it was probably inevitable that this storied place -- a spot of Buddhist myth" regarded by some as the model for James Hilton's Shangri-La -- would be recast as "the definitive white-water exploratory challenge".
With dreams of establishing himself in the film industry, the admirer of German expressionism, 1920's freak shows and silent movies, looks forward to experimenting with his love for the occult, extreme performance and his fascination with horror.
The fascination with extremes that drives the cello piece is explored more vigorously in Mr. Joneleit's String Quartet No. 6 (1999).
Worse, Ms. Murray's fascination with extremes, which in "The Caprices" yielded some harrowing and visceral glimpses into the Hobbesian condition of man, is put in the service here of a sensationalistic plot that appeals to the reader's cheapest, most voyeuristic instincts.
We seem to reserve our fascination for extremes only rather than carefully considering the actual substance of whatever performance is presented to us.
Extreme shoulders are a recurring fascination with designers, and this week we've seen them squared, pinched and inflated like a linebacker's.
"There is a fascination for the extremes of experience and there always has been," added Kerry Sharp, commissioning editor at Simon & Schuster.
