Word: depicting
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...recognition by Vietnam's communist government in 1997, Caodaism has flourished, and now tourists flock to its mecca in Tay Ninh province, about 90 kilometers northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Visitors can wander the gaudy halls of the Holy See in search of enlightenment?or an eyeful. Murals depict the sacred eye of God in a triangle and recreate the signing of the Third Alliance between God and man, witnessed by Caodaism's most revered saints: Vietnamese poet Trang Trinh, Chinese nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen and writer Victor Hugo. Midday Mass is open to the public and attended...
...cover photo of President Bush and Karl Rove enjoying a laugh in the Oval Office in April 2001 was misleading. "The President went out of his way to avoid any hint of gloating over the election results," wrote a reader from upstate New York, "so how did TIME depict him? Smiling in an old picture that gave exactly the opposite impression. Shame on you." A Georgian was just as disgusted: "Your snide attempt to convey that Bush was gloating was below the loosest journalistic standards. Unbelievable!" But an Arizonan thought the picture could be put to practical use: "Democratic members...
...Asian massage parlor, which is right next to a children's tutoring center, which is all you need to know to understand why the project is staging this fight in Nevada. The office looks more like a sorority fund drive than a '60s dorm room. Posters drawn by children depict images like a teddy bear with a heart labeled VOTE YES ON 9. Rogers, wearing a collarless white shirt, is still at work at 1A.M., editing a commercial. "In college we'd sit around and talk about this--that when we grew up we were going to change these laws...
...work went unrecognized until his last decade. After shows in prestigious venues led to acceptance by a younger generation of artists, he died in 1970. The earliest works here date from the 1940s. Writhing with organic shapes and bearing titles like The Slaying of Osiris and Pagan Void, they depict nothing recognizable, though there is a floor or horizon for the viewer to hang on to. But in the exhibition's next room, full of canvases from the period when he found his own vision, the ground has fallen away and the viewer is suspended, gazing at pure painted surfaces...
...irony of all of this is Kiarostami is a very apolitical director,” Pierce said. “His films are really meditations on human dilemmas, and depict the Iranian landscape in a very lyrical, poetic fashion...