Word: graphics
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When does an advocacy web site cross the line between providing information and inciting violence? In Portland, Ore., a federal trial began on Thursday to determine the viability of a web site titled the Nuremberg Files, a graphic antiabortion site (www.christiangallery.com/atrocity) that lists the names of abortion providers around the country and asks for help in gathering information about them. In some cases the site displays photos and other identifiers, such as addresses and phone numbers, as well as names and birthdates of family members. Planned Parenthood and five doctors accuse the site of being a not-so-thinly...
...about social realities that may already be affecting the classroom or community. Yet where should the line be drawn? Debbi Grizzi, a Lincoln, Neb., mother, had to lift her jaw off the counter when she opened her 12-year-old's backpack and discovered A Need to Kill, a graphic account of a child killer who fantasizes and masturbates about murdering boys. "There has to be some check on what children are reading," she argues. Houston eighth-grade English teacher Susan Duhon agrees that teachers must be sensitive to the wishes of the community. "I am a team player...
These, like the doings of sumo wrestlers and high-class prostitutes, gave a rich subject matter to 18th century graphic artists like Suzuki Harunobu, Kitagawa Utamaro and the theater caricaturist Toshusai Sharaku, whose image of the actor Otani Oniji III playing a samurai's manservant, all red-rimmed eyes and stylish snarl, is a deliciously succinct expression of fictive bloody-mindedness. Through the medium of prints, the range of things that could be depicted widened to take in all Japan. Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Ando Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido...
...before his 30th birthday; he then gave up killing in favor of painting and calligraphy. One of his ink paintings is in the show, a swiftly brushed image of a shrike balanced on a branch above a caterpillar that is crawling upward, presumably to its doom. It is a graphic masterpiece. You feel the tension in the body of the bird as it balances before striking, and every flick of the brush bespeaks alertness...
...health nut Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), who used his first magazine, Physical Culture, as a vehicle for promulgating his views on carrot eating, cold-water bathing and frequent, vigorous sex. (He was for all three.) Largely for his fulminations on the last, his racy tabloid, the New York Evening Graphic, which specialized in covering violence and sex, became known as the "PornoGraphic." His legacy is with us even now: it was Macfadden who invented the "composograph" or composite photo, in which the heads of real people in the news are superimposed on the bodies of models posed in compromising positions...