Word: depict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...write as a member of the F.D.R. Memorial Commission and as a grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Your article on the debate over the memorial's depiction of F.D.R.'s disability [Monuments, March 6] was inaccurate and unbalanced, and although you characterized my position on the monument, Time made no attempt to interview me. While it is true that none of the sculptures relating directly to F.D.R. depict him in his wheelchair or on crutches, the fact of his being stricken with polio is prominently expressed, carved in granite, in a chronology of landmark events of his life. F.D.R...
Newsweek has every right to depict someone suffering from exhaustion. But it is wrong for journalists to try to make someone appear to be suffering from exhaustion if that person no longer has such a condition. Such misrepresentation gives all journalists a bad name...
...what? Children are exposed to violence and sexual imagery many times a day in visual and printed media. Morrison and Kincaid, with their lyrical prose and powerful descriptions, have produced works of beauty unrivaled by most contemporary--and many canonical--writers. They have created literary masterpieces that poignantly depict female adolescents coping with their burgeoning sexuality and racial identity. But for the West Chester school board, each writer's challenging of race and gender stereotypes seems to strike a raw nerve...
...artist-author carries us back to Old Virginny with a dual-media performance: 38 paintings of bygone railroads and Shenandoah Valley townscapes juxtaposed with a 50-page story about the love affair between Anna, an enigmatic artist, and Russell, a photographer and train buff. The meticulous paintings depict Russell's old photographs, complete with creases and torn edges. The text is the reminiscence of an apocryphal ex-newspaperman whose attempt to reconstruct a forgotten romance resurrects family secrets and American history. This is an original example of Proust's observation that "the memory of a particular image is but regret...
According to Hall, the volumes are supposed to depict the Biblical Old and New Testaments and the overturned Book of Life, which symbolizes the limits of human knowledge...