Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upon the subjects own self." To the extent that Walker's silhouettes of black girls swallowing their own hands or feces imply a masochistic tendency, they become completely interdependent with the sadistic acts being represented on other walls. These two extremes of suffering and cruelty in Walker's work function not so much as disparate poles of reality, but as opposing sides of the same history, casting black identity and white identity as inextricably linked. For better or for worse...
...other supporting actors, Irons' function as Aramis is mainly to be the brains of the group and a prim foil to the buffoon Porthos. A summary of his character is provided in his answer to a vexed Athos, who exclaims, "Are you so much holier than the rest of us?" He replies calmly, "Yes, I am." While Depardieu and Irons provide the comic relief, John Malkovich plays the father unhinged by grief who finds a surrogate son in Phillipe, and not always convincingly. His voice seems to express only one consistent emotion: suppressed rage. Whatever he says, he says...
Palm also conducted more conventional research with focus groups, but Hawkins' original vision turned out to be uncannily close to the final product. Its internal functions were designed with the same practicality. He invented his own simple shorthand system, called Graffiti, because handwriting-recognition software was too unreliable. (Since everyone writes letters differently, he reduced some of the most troublesome letters to basic elements: an A looks like an upside-down V, and an F resembles an upside-down L.) He powered the Pilot with AAA batteries, available everywhere. And he settled on four function buttons--for calendar, addresses...
Goldhagen said the memorial is brilliant in itspedagogical function because it forces people tothink about freedom and dictatorship on thefreedom trail...
...looks forward to moving in the newdirection of looking at how muscles function inpowering the mechanical requirements of movementin animals in motion...