Word: graphical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initiative petition, signed by more than 5000 registered voters, defines pornography as "the graphic sexuallly explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." As an amendment to the city's newly created Human Rights Commission, the ordinance would permit a victim to seek civil damages against the maker, distributor, seller or exhibitor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...
...like pornography, terrorist television, the graphic unfolding of evil on camera, sells. During the hostage crisis, network news ratings rose markedly. But this fascination has its price. Lot's wife fixed her gaze on evil and turned to salt...
When they got loose and interested, on the other hand, they swapped graphic war stories. "That's an exit wound there, by the way," said Ray Bray, a California police official, as he showed off a color picture of a victim from last summer's mass murder at a McDonald...
...could cite the Texas artist John Alexander, 40. Despite occasional derailments into a sort of demonic cartooning, Alexander's spiky, haunted style is one of intense graphic vitality. He has revived cliches of ferocious nature and made them work in an absolutely authentic way. His Hobbesian sense of the world, the battle of all against all, extends from the swamps of Louisiana (populated by a tangled bestiary of paranoid deer, coons, foxes, bright-eyed, indifferent herons and fish-chomping alligators, glaring at one another like bikers on Methedrine) to the boardrooms of the Sunbelt. Thanks to a Baptist background...
...Susann died believing she was the peer of Charles Dickens. "My peers," Schnabel told the New York Times last winter, "are the artists who speak to me: Giotto, Duccio, Van Gogh." Doubtless this list will change if he tries a ceiling, but Schnabel has never learned to draw; in graphic terms, his art has barely got beyond the lumpy pastiches of Max Beckmann and Richard Lindner he did as a student in Houston. The dull, uninflected megalomania of his kitsch- expressionist imagery (Sex, Death, God and Me) is rant, a bogus "appropriation" of profundity...