Word: embellishment
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...aspires to evoke the reality of a life. Angelou tries to concentrate the vulnerability in the sexuality of Black women and how others, perceive this power. Her son makes Angelou into an earth god feeble enough for him to strike if she disappoints him. Her lovers use her to embellish their own self-images. Her Black audience focuses on her clairvoyance as an entertainer; she must penetrate the collective Black identity and sing it back, correctly. Her white audience follows her militant roles and allows her to "curse and berate" them, which is their contribution "to our struggle...
Certain aspects of the scandal are unique to the Washington Post, including its emphasis on pizazz. But, as Jane Perlez, media critic of the New York Daily News, wrote, "other fabrications, on a less spectacular scale, go by every day in news stories. Every day, reporters 'embellish' quotes from an individual to make them 'sound better' or to fit the point of the story." Some editors concede that the press generally overuses unidentified sources. Cooke has made them more aware that a paper's reputation can be just as much at stake as the reporter...
...RIDDLE OF VIOLENCE cogently presents the passive-resistance-versus-violence argument with Kaunda drawing on his long political and academic experience. This former teacher of philosphy and ethics uses clear analogies and many applicable examples to embellish and strenghthen his reasoning. Moreover, the writings of a 57-year-old leader, who is already a two-time founding father (in 1964 in Zambia and in 1980 in Zimbabwe) would be interesting in and of themselves, and the collection of his thoughts into relevant political philosophy makes the book even more worthwhile. As a unit, however, the book suffers from its essay...
...concept worked fine for a while at the 13-month-old Honda motorcycle plant in Marysville, Ohio, where all 200 employees wear the company's white overalls. But on May 16 a maintenance man decided to embellish the standard wardrobe with a United Auto Workers baseball cap. Plant officials promptly made him remove it and issued a flat ban on noncompany hats on the ground that allowing them would impair "the Honda working environment." Union buttons were forbidden too because they might damage production-line paintwork...
Arts on the Line is a pioneer effort in the realm of Public Art. And public art always creates inflamed debate over the validity of commissioning artists to embellish our environment. At stake is both public space and public tax dollars, and many citizens are reluctant to have the government decide what affects their eyes and their wallets...