Word: abstraction
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...film. The plot revolves around the premise that male models have been behind every major political assassination in the past 200 years. Ludicrous as it sounds, the premise is actually one of the better aspects of the film. It’s something that sounds great in the abstract, but ends up being little more than a Manchurian Candidate rip-off by way of “The X-Files,” and filtered with a satiric look at the fashion industry...
...overwhelming U.S. power continues to pulsate with precision. What have these desperate people achieved apart from wanton murder? It is not only Americans they have killed. So many have perished from all kinds of diverse backgrounds who had come to work in those beautiful buildings which represented some abstract future. They have put the entire world on edge. But they may have distanced sympathetic people away from their cause. They may even unwittingly have provided some unexpected justification for the brutal Israeli occupation of Arab lands. That is the law of unpredictable results in history...
...didn’t really want the answers to these questions.” There is promise in her recollections, but they seem to stop there. Gornick never provides any quotes or passages from her book, and without a grounding in the text, her descriptions sound too theoretical and abstract. Gornick later describes a more successful attempt at personal narration—a memoir about herself as a child, her mother and a woman who lived next door to them. This attempt was more successful because she had begun to realize the importance of understanding just who was telling...
...semester will try to incorporate current events more explicitly into the curriculum. Bear F. Braumoeller, an assistant professor teaching the Government seminar “International Relations Theory,” said in an e-mail he hopes to use the current situation as a concrete example of the abstract concepts in his course...
...hanging from a traditional crucifix, he painted a series of diamond-shaped canvases with a dense, rich red paint. Shades of yellow underpainting shine through the red pigments in spots, making his canvasses positively luminous. The Cathedral of Padre Pio rejected Richter’s works as being too abstract, but the Cathedral’s loss is Venice’s gain. When viewed in tandem with Titian’s Assunta—located in the nearby Friary—Richter’s Rhomba appears as the abstract embodiment of a truly divine light...