It's an approach that echoes the renaissance of vinyl records among hip young aesthetes.

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Aesthetes disliked the seemingly banal housing tracts "rising hideously, " as Robert Caro put it, from the urban periphery.

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She gets a CBE, and is regarded as The Last of the Bloomsbury Set, a group of radical aesthetes famous around the 1920s.

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Like manufacturers and homebuilders before them, farmers have found themselves in the crosshairs of urban aesthetes and green activists who hope to impose their own Utopian vision of agriculture.

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Back in 2004, the screen diva Aishwarya Rai oversaw the launch of a balloon, inscribed with an exhortation to vote, which was then tethered to the site to the horror of aesthetes.

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It won't win any awards from design aesthetes either: function was prioritized over form with its retro stylings -- but the real achievement here has been to cram that much power into this tiny box.

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One place where aesthetes and sceptics seem to have prevailed is the Greek island of Serifos, where plans were announced in 2007 to build 87 turbines of similar height to the ones proposed for Massachusetts.

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While AppleInsider still claims the device is positioned somewhere between an iPhone and a laptop, its inside sources apparently didn't give the thumbs up to early artist renditions of the handheld, and so AI's new and "improved" render is above -- striking fear in the heart of aesthetes everywhere.

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