Word: appeareance
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...stand-ins for statesmen.Schwitters relegates the element of magic in his stories to exaggeration in the form of the grotesque and macabre. Again in the introduction, Zipes argues that the presence of these motifs make Schwitter’s stories fairy tales. But Zipes is mistaken, for they also appear in other genres, such as the Gothic story. Schwitters occasionally does borrow bits from conventional fairy tale plots, but he’s unable to employ them creatively. For example, the heroine of “The Proud Young Woman” rejects all her suitors—like...
...threatening letters Wednesday, a scare that prompted police and hazardous materials teams to rush to the scene. Police responded to reports of suspicious mail at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the early afternoon. All the envelopes delivered to the hospitals appeared to be from the same sender, but police found no trace of powder, according to media reports and the Boston Police Department’s online log. The exact intent of the letters mailed to the hospitals remains unclear, but no biological threat was found. Wednesday’s scare...
...disembodied brain in cyberspace.As visitors travel through The Gloaming, they experience the product of other people’s contributions to the site, even as they create an identity for themselves. After repeated visits, users can eventually access a forum where their additions, corrections, and deletions to the narrative appear as original components of the site. “This is a project where reading and writing are not so separate; the division between being in front of the words and behind them is not so clear,” Rice says.Rice refers to the project as an example...
...With secular and nationalist parties, like the newly established Greater Indonesia Movement Party and the party of retired Suharto-era General Wiranto, taking the majority of the votes, Indonesian voters appear to be moving toward the center and abandoning parties based on religion, observers say. Grappling with the global economic crisis and considerable challenges at home, a majority of Indonesians have once again shown that they do not want religion leading the national agenda. "Voters have become more pragmatic and rational as opposed to ideological," says Hasibuan...
...There are several reasons for the spike in attacks. For impoverished Somalis, who appear to be behind most of the attacks, massive ransom payouts in recent months have proved that the piracy trade is perhaps their best route out of despair and hopelessness. It now appears that the earlier drop in attacks had more to do with the weather than with the international show of force. "There are new pirates all the time," Abdi Timo-Jile, a pirate himself, told TIME from his home in the central city of Garowe. "We people are not afraid. There is death every...