Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through its fictional conceit, Flaubert's Parrot illustrates, among other things, how scholarship can and should be an expression of passion, a declaration of love.
One of the sharpest criticisms came from the panel's dissenting judge, J. Skelly Wright, who called his colleagues' interpretation of actual malice "a startling revision." If the jury verdict is upheld, Wright predicted, "the effect on freedom of expression will be incalculable. The message to the media will be...
In another reversal for the press last week, a federal appeals panel in St. Louis overturned a judge's decision and reinstated a $10 million libel suit by South Dakota Governor William Janklow against Newsweek magazine. In a February 1983 article, Newsweek--which is owned by the Washington Post Co...
Advanced students of the art of liar catching watch facial muscles closely because some muscle movements are almost impossible for most people to fake. For example, individuals who feel real grief will move the inner corners of their eyebrows upward. Only about 10% of the time, Ekman's experiments show...
Why is theater so fascinated with failure? Could it be the sense of inferiority the American stage occasionally displays towards the European? The jealousy of the theater towards the mega-successful cinema? An expression of the neurotic personalities typical of live performers? Perhaps the theater cannot represent the heroic or...