31. Lichtenstein transformed not just local artists but local public taste, and hence the nature of audiences first in New York, then in the country at large. 32. Lucas says Hollywood is the epicenter of overreaching to perceived public tastes. 33. Never again, Whitcomb said, would public taste in music be so eclectic. 34. Nobody has ever gone broke underestimating public taste. 35. Nonetheless, the great divide in aesthetics exists, is mirrored in public taste, and is embodied this weekend at American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet. 36. Now, agents do, and stars are vulnerable to the whims of public taste. 37. On the set, every inch the major director in boots and breeches, he constantly altered his films to suit shifting public taste. 38. Over the years, crops have spread throughout the fertile county, varying with the market and public taste. 39. Public taste does evolve, much as baseball has fought it. 40. Rafshoon explains it as a change in public taste. |