Word: graphics
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Especially that of Samuel Tibbetts, summa cum laude from Stanford with extracurricular honors in Marxism. Tibbetts is a study in sociopathology, a graphic mug shot of the intellectual as free radical: corrosive, amoral, tyrannical and remorseless. He is not above ordering the deaths of colleagues he feels do not toe his party line. Tibbetts and his followers are eventually captured in 1978 and brought to trial in Boston for murder...
Celebrating graphic violence in the name of justice, Robocop appeals to the same American admiration for crimebusting that made Clint Eastwood first a star, and then mayor of Carmel, California...
...Upton Sinclair's The Jungle shocked the public with graphic depictions of the squalor in Chicago slaughterhouses. Since then conditions in the U.S. meat-packing industry have improved considerably, but they are still far from ideal. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration last week proposed a record $2.59 million fine against IBP, alleging that in 1985 and 1986 the largest U.S. meat-packer knowingly failed to record 1,038 job-related injuries and illnesses at its Dakota City, Neb., plant. The unreported cases included knife wounds, concussions, burns, hernias, fractures and carpal tunnel syndrome, a painful condition of the wrist...
...sects' drive on getting Playboy and Penthouse removed from the shelves of 7- Eleven stores. Pressure groups have successfully lobbied the FCC to slap down Howard Stern and the other risk jockeys of raunch radio. In 1984 feminists won passage of an Indianapolis ordinance that defined pornography as the "graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and/ or words" -- thereby implicitly condoning gay S-M porn (in which men may subordinate men) and much S-M heterosexual porn (in which men are bent, spindled or mutilated by very bossy women). Pornographers and civil libertarians, however, took out an injunction...
...someone asked me to build a building," Manwaring declares, "I'd say yes." Vanderbyl agrees and ups the ante. In fact, he says, "I want to do everything." Nor is that implausible. In an era when surfaces -- of objects, of interiors, of buildings -- get all the attention, the graphic designer is king...