"You're buying into the legend of those times and it is more seductive because you weren't there," says Simon Reynolds (old school: "1992"), author of Retromania, the 2011 book about "pop culture's addiction to its own past".
"Sorry - can I use the word - can it be more seductive?" Dean has never seen rhythmic gymnastics in the flesh before.
The poetry of seeing things that way has always appealed to me, and I just think it's more seductive than being happy.
"It's physically more seductive than it's ever been," Mr. Maupin said.
This sort of anarchic pride was just the thing to seduce me away from myself and it was made more seductive because everyone knew that it was doomed.
The challenge, he concluded, is how to take that task of complexity and marry it with something more seductive that will capture people's attention to being with.
Mischief is usually more attractive to a child than virtue, if only because virtue is what grownups expect of him, and when mischief can be pursued with others, as part of a recognized "movement," it becomes even more seductive.
When the rest of the band joined in, a new song emerged — "When I Fall in Love," the title track of Mr. Botti's 2004 breakthrough album — and with it came a more seductive groove.
Its capacity for contrasting breathtaking illusion and visible working parts -- for magic believed and magic laid bare -- is close to the theater's, and it is rarely more seductive than when tackled by an artist with a painterly touch.
It is even more seductive to imagine a world in which a woman is encouraged, praised and supported for fighting back in these ways.
