Word: depictions
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Manufacturers have long known that odor can be a powerful inducement to buy a product. Yet advertising men, finding smell too elusive a sensation to depict in words or pictures, tend to concentrate on the more easily communicated qualities of the goods that they tout. Now a process called "micro-encapsulation" is opening a promising new dimension for advertising by enabling readers to sniff a product's aroma on the printed page...
...After Harvard-What? people have overlooked an apparently lucrative field for Harvard graduates: posing for advertisements that depict the adverse effects of drug...
...same blend of mannered elegance and gory realism. But the triumph of Meister Francke's mature style is seen in the St. Thomas of Canterbury altar piece, painted after 1424 for a group of Hamburg merchants trading with England. The nine panels of this darkly glowing work depict episodes in the life of Thomas à Becket, together with scenes from the Passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, achieving a peak of dramatic intensity hitherto unrealized in North German painting. In The Martyrdom of St. Thomas, the kneeling archbishop half turns toward his attackers. Blood streams down...
...play takes place in a night court in Steeltown. U.S.A Flashbacks by the prisoners depict the iron grip which Mister, evil capitalist owner of the steel mill, has over every aspect of the town...
...report comes at a time when homosexuals are more visible and assertive than ever-in films and plays that explicitly depict their private lives and in public organizations that militate for their civil rights. Still, the report notes, parents who find out that their child is a homosexual or a lesbian almost inevitably suffer, fearing that they are somehow guilty of a tragic failure...