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cynosure
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Amidst this cinder-block terrain in Kingston, New York, the group was to restage the two most emblematic sites of modernity's public sphere--the shopping arcade and fairground--as unlikely cynosures of a renegade communications network.
The studios cultivated their Gables and Garbos not primarily as acting talents (though some, of course, could act) but as cynosures, publicity garnerers, dream germinators.
 
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