Word: dissections
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...originally thought I was going to take ten photographs and dissect them very carefully and talk about the making of them. I just felt that I wanted to cover more ground and I decided to answer every question I thought anyone could ever have about the work of today so that involved bringing in the more famous pictures like John and Yoko and Demi Moore. The book started off with taking the most talked about pictures that I had done. Then I started to add pictures that were stepping stones in learning how to take pictures, so that...
...sees herself is more powerful than what she sees in magazines. But here's the rub: what she sees in the media does affect that self-image, especially in terms of her body. Some experts recommend media-literacy classes--as early as kindergarten. "Children need to learn how to dissect and understand this pervasive aspect of their environment," says Gigi Durham, author of The Lolita Effect, "just as they learn to understand the seasons or Newton's laws of motion...
...question: If most of those million fleeing Republicans have become tenuous independents, then who are those 700,000 new Democrats? That is what the DNC is trying to find out. "They are young, they are female, they are new to the process," said a consultant who is trying to dissect this new group for the party elders. "Most of them have come out of nowhere...
Like athletes in all major sporting events, golfers at the Open undertake this challenge with the added pressure of intense scrutiny: spectators, TV cameras and journalists dissect every aspect of their game, and up-to-the-second scoreboards offer players the strange meta-drama of watching their own performance unfold in front of them. That said, British Open courses such as Birkdale tend to be more sparsely decorated than the courses on which U.S. majors are played: with fewer scoreboards and no JumboTrons, the Open reminds competitors that golf is essentially a lonely sport, designed to be played over...
...punishments for individual crimes. When societies sin--dismissing the poor, despoiling the planet--who, exactly, should pay, and how? I am responsible for the lies I tell or the fries I crave and have a duty to give to the poor. But what about social injustice? How do I dissect the sources to find the sin? I try not to litter, but I have to drive. Am I a sinner on days I fail to carpool...