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...choice” offends you—too bad. When it comes to being “PC,” I’m not. The abortion rights faction no doubt will argue that the employment of “precious feet” pins (which depict, appropriately, a pair of infant feet) is nothing more than a form of sentimental propaganda, an attempt to appeal to the public’s infatuation with babies. This charge, however, is far from the truth...
...classwork pictures of his English teacher, who looked like a duck. Since the production of these anthropomorphic caricatures, the fledgling artist has aspired to work as an editorial cartoonist, so as to focus his attention toward good use. While little of Collin’s work will depict the Faculty and staff as ducks or swans, it will focus on national, local and Harvard issues. Collin is from Tucson, Ariz...
GRANDPARENT COOL Just a generation ago, elderly people in children's literature were often portrayed as grumpy, mean or doddering, but a University of Florida study has found that contemporary kids books now overwhelmingly depict grandparents as upbeat, active and wise. Researchers believe that elders are getting added positive attention because more people are living to be active grandparents. The number of people age 65 or older has tripled over the past 50 years to a record 420 million worldwide, and older people in general are better educated, retiring earlier and living longer, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report...
...ardent backer of the avant-garde in the days when that word actually meant something. "The golden age has not passed," ran the subtitle he appended to an enormous didactic canvas, In the Time of Harmony, 1893-95. "It lies in the future." The picture set out to depict the joys of anarchist cooperation: free love, picnics, games of boule on the beach, farm labor made easy by a steam-powered reaper in the distance. What in fact lay in the future was the trenches of Flanders and the murderous October Revolution. Luckily for him, Signac did not have...
...when the bits are more inspired, wow. There is a death-by-falling sequence that would be tremendously clever even if it weren’t mocking falls in musicals such as Les Miserables. And all of the scenes that depict dead characters are accomplished not only with the right amount of hokey acting and writing but with a low budget effect that grows funnier each time it recurs. Like similar on-the-cheap elements in the show, it humorously riffs on the low budget nature of Urinetown while exposing the frailty of such a device when employed seriously...