Word: depict
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...appears, are most Americans. Bingeing on a diet of local news stories that graphically depict crime invading once safe ports -- schools, restaurants, courtrooms, homes, libraries -- Americans are rapidly coming to regard the summer of '93 as a season in hell. Indeed, a spate of events in the past two weeks seemed to argue that no one and no place was immune, not a respected schoolteacher living in a small town in Texas, not even the father of a megastar athlete driving a car down the highway...
...white for racial purity, red for the blood they are willing to shed and yellow as a signal they have shed someone else's. But another gang of skinheads is slightly different in appearance: the swastikas have diagonal lines slashed through them, and black-and-white breast-pocket patches depict a crucified skinhead with the letters SHARP written over the top. These are the Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice -- the remnant, less prominent in other cities, of what was once a nonracialist baldie majority. The antiracists, says Christensen, "think the racists give true skinheads a bad image." And so they...
...teaching have always ranged widely. Their base -- laid long ago at Harvard -- is the tradition of German philology, exemplified in America by the emigre scholar Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), that explores the modes and levels of representation in Western writing. "Representation" -- how we see other cultures, how we depict them in our own through imagination and stereotype -- is the core of Said's work, especially of Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. But Said despises what he calls "the minority mentality" on American campuses. "My books are one long protest against it. The status of victim is not a passive blanket...
Committee members peppered Schwarzkopf and other witnesses with questions that seemed designed to depict gays as a greater risk to "unit cohesion" than women and blacks, two other groups that initially met with resistance before being successfully integrated into the military. When officers responded with sweeping generalizations that painted homosexuals as HIV infected, flamboyant and sexually predatory, they were not pressed for specifics...
Movies coming out of Hollywood have become more and more violent in recent years. Action films vie for the most gross, realistic scenes possible. Modern special effects allow them to rise above normal everyday death and destruction and depict truly horrific scenes. Think how disappointed Schwarzenegger fans would be if there were only typical shootings in his next movie...