Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...innumerable number of dead bodies disfigured by improvised explosive devices, I wondered why this never made it on the news. Whether you’re watching Fox, CNN or PBS you seldom see the contorted faces, the torn and charred flesh. We only get the most vague and abstract sense of what a war is: x dead, y injured, cartoonish maps showing where the fighting is going on. In the popular mind war is being turned into a largely abstract game...
...While he is often described as a thinker, he's not one to dwell on the abstract. He's more of an analyst and problem solver: as Americans say, a policy wonk. Still, several themes have endured. First, there's enormous self-belief; Latham "backs himself" and would like others to aspire to better things. Second, he believes in Labor - not just as a political party, but as a movement - "a movement that needs to energize its base and create new causes and constituencies," as he wrote in From the Suburbs. These two streams come together in his desire...
...empretzeled himself on Iraq--to the outrageous: Zell Miller's assertion that Kerry would take his orders from Paris. The Miller speech was the ugliest I've ever seen at a convention. It certainly trumped Pat Buchanan's 1992 "culture war" speech, in which the target was an abstract army of social liberals. This was a direct assault on the character and integrity of the Democratic nominee. And it followed a familiar G.O.P. attack pattern: like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Miller wasn't an official part of the Bush campaign. He claims to be a Democrat...
...years, he uses the strips to temper, if not actually resolve, his stress. While the early ones recount the agonizing moments of day - hearing the roar of the impact, retrieving his daughter from her nearby middle school, watching as the second tower collapses - the later strips are more abstract. Spiegelman laments what he sees as the co-opting of September 11 to justify further polarizing acts of war. "Why did those provincial American flags have to sprout out of the embers of Ground Zero? Why not a globe," asks the author. Unlike much 9/11-related art, including many comix (see carets...
DIED. VIOLA FREY, 70, artist whose colorful, larger-than-life clay sculptures of men and women pushed the boundaries of the refined ceramic medium of the 1950s and '60s; of colon cancer; in Oakland, Calif. Her 9-ft.-high, robust, cartoonish figures--a fusion of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and what was later known as California Funk--were comical but politically pointed: a 2002 work, Man Kicking World, shows a seated man pushing a massive globe with his foot...