Word: depict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very necessary for the children to recollect and depict what they saw before they left Kosovo," Pryor said...
Since the first broadcast of the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots, Hollywood, in such films as Glory, Amistad and Beloved, has helped depict a more complex picture of race relations in early America. Combined with new literature and scholarship on the African American experience such as John Hope Franklin's Runaway Slaves, the companion to the four-part, six-hour PBS series Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, and Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, the Encarta Africana, there is respect and understanding for the lives of African ancestors...
While a Boston Blobe story left open the possibility that the events of April 4 were consensual, the court statements to which Douglas pled guilty depict a situation in which the women he assaulted repeatedly his advances. But faculty members proposing a lesser punishment for Douglas wrote in a letter to the Crimson that "Rape is not an undifferentiable single act. Rather it is a category of acts that vary dramatically in their causes and consequences...it is easy to imagine rapes that warrant the most severe penalty we can confer, if not more, It is our belief that this...
Strauss' early masterpiece, finished by the time he was 25, was written under the spell of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and takes its cues from the tristesse (and orchestrational largesse) of that monster. In the version Strauss sought to depict, it is not a statue-come-to protagonist's own self loathing that brings on the brimstone. You can look forward to otherworldly brass writing and overwrought, saturated textures. For a first course, it is heavy fare...
...preference for mixtapes rather than champagne or handguns more "real"? And am I actually "representing" hip-hop culture with rhymes that depict those preferences--particularly as a privileged Harvard student? I used to believe so wholeheartedly; but as I meet more and more people who could care less about what a b-boy is, I'm starting to doubt...