Word: depict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exhibit, organized by John Czaplicka, assistant professor of fine arts, accompanies a course offered this spring term. It aims at tracing the evolving conceptions of the metropolis, through the eyes of individual artists who depict its effects upon the inhabitants. The fantastic medley of ideas and experiences present in any modern urban center is reflected in their artistic product and in the show as a whole...
Greenpeace's six-month campaign features a series of garish Day-Glo-red posters. The signs on the northbound side of the highway depict a worker in a protective suit and gas mask, and the southbound versions show an exploding nuclear bomb. Until Greenpeace slapped its posters on the billboards, they had been blank for two years as a result of a successful boycott against local merchants who advertised on them. "It's not clear whether Greenpeace should be labeled environmental nitwits or environmental traitors," groused Tom Lustig, an attorney for the anti-billboard group. Countered Jason Salzman, a Greenpeace...
...children gave Mapplethorpe permission to take the photographs and the center to display them. "Where would you draw the line?" asks Monty Lobb, president of Citizens for Community Values, a local group that first drew the show to the sheriff's attention. "Will next year's photographs depict bestiality or necrophilia...
...blame some of my embarrassment toward "Southern culture" on television's shallow, cliched view of Southern people and places. Look at shows like "The Dukes of Hazzard," "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Hee Haw." Even "Matlock" and "Designing Women," which at least depict intelligent characters, depend on quaint Southern accents, romanticized Southern situations and hackneyed Southern expressions for their appeal. Face it--no one expects the sophistication of "L.A. Law" south of the Mason-Dixon Line...
...According to Yurco, the figures dressed in ankle-length clothes at the upper left corner of the top slab are the defeated Israelites; more Israelites lie in a confused jumble at the slab's bottom edge. If Yurco's theory is correct, these images would predate the earliest known depiction of the Israelites by six centuries. The figures in the bottom slab depict Merenptah's defeat of the Canaanite city of Ashkelon...