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Poets, novelists and playwrights insolently tossed off the cultural yoke of France.
Mr. Wenner said Rolling Stone's more antagonistic tack is, in a sense, a way of shaking off the cultural complacency many liberals felt in the 1990s.
It seems disingenuous to maintain simultaneously that Little Richard has fallen off the cultural radar but is also too well documented to warrant a more comprehensive examination.
Yet even here the exhibition pulls its punches and glosses over a bit of history by avoiding the more sexually explicit Mapplethorpe images that did so much to set off the cultural wars of the early 1990s.
The range and depth of those collections will allow the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which is being marketed as a "universal museum," to show off the cultural achievements of civilizations from every corner of the world.
Jini Reddy A city break can be exhausting – if you're intent on ticking off the cultural must-sees, great restaurants and cool bars, pounding the pavements trying to cram a two-week itinerary into two days.
It warns officers not to be put off pursuing investigations because of the "cultural sensitivities" involved.
The British may have pioneered the Great Game, but their political and cultural intelligence about much of north-western India was limited from the onset.After the 1820s, the British, in a fit of victorious hubris (emboldened by their defeats of Napoleonic France, no less), increasingly cut themselves off from the cultural, linguistic and religious knowledge of the wider Indo-Persian realm.
Swenson is happily married and a published novelist, but he has become so cut off from the cultural mainstream that he's blocked on his latest novel, tentatively titled "The Black and the Black," and he's frustrated by the provincialism of life at Euston and by the lack of promise in his students.
They also helped touch off the great "cultural vegetables" debate of 2011 (in the realm of film critics' blogs, at least), in which a writer who wrote a controversial essay in this magazine was branded, essentially, as a pimp for summer schlock and Jack Sparrow.
Occasionally a photographer comes along who is a kind of human barometer, registering pressure changes, ticking off fluctuations in the cultural weather.
