Word: depicting
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...does offer sushi for $5 and lasagna for the same. The red booth benches are absurdly comfortable and quick to conform to the rear of any Klondike-munching customer. There is little in the way of wall art and no view to speak of, but the straw container does depict sunflower-eating cows. The café menu also repeats the word “assorted” over and over, suggesting that neither a member of the literature department nor a thesaurus was consulted while writing the menu. They have assorted bagels, assorted sandwiches and, of course, assorted fresh-baked...
Constitutionally, the court made the right decision. Real child pornography is a fundamental violation of a child’s human rights and is rightfully illegal. Virtual child pornography, on the other hand, is victimless and is merely, as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote, “the visual depiction of an idea.” The Supreme Court has consistently held that it is not the government’s place to outlaw the expressions of thoughts which could only tangentially lead to a potential crime. Child pornography does not necessarily lead anyone to go and molest, abduct...
...propped up in the corner. “There’s a couple of them, I just really wonder about their lack of enthusiasm,” she sighed. The panels showed half-painted heads under fireman’s helmets, and large blocks of gray. Meaning to depict the collapse of the World Trade Center, the artists apparently lost interest in the project as the terrorist attack slipped down in the headlines...
Deborah Browder, a soft-spoken junior at the Boston Arts Academy, chose to depict civilization as a series of symbols emerging out of a pearly gray cloud: a city skyline with lightning, a blurry dove, a rose growing out of a dirty crack in a sidewalk. Her painting is extraordinarily evocative and sophisticated—especially the portrait of her family in the corner which almost looks like a photograph. “They don’t know that I’m painting them,” she smiled quietly. “It’s going...
...expect photography to depict slices of the real world; except for movies, fictional photography is rare. Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, both 37 and graduates of Washington University’s B.F.A. program, break this mold by constructed “forged worlds,” complete with enchanting images, engaging narrative, and, as in some of their past exhibitions, props and toys to “prove” their fictions. Their idea is an elegant, imaginative and mature form of deception which captures all the realistic qualities of a dream...