Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Through June 25. "The Renaissance Print: Franceand Italy." This exhibition presents a provocativedialogue between French and Italian graphic worksfrom the 16th century...
...song was no love ballad. Its images were graphic, and many of the lyrics on the album, "Straight Outta Compton," were downright misogynist. But Wright was dead on in describing the rage minorities feel, often justifiably, towards law enforcement. After the Los Angeles riots bore out his point, Wright told the L.A. Times: "We were criticized a lot when we first released that song, but I guess now after what happened...people might look differently on the situation...
...this old-fashioned show, McAnuff and his team have made splendid use of computer-graphic wizardry: buildings rise and fall on screens in the background, rockets climb, clouds swim past--there is even an erupting volcano. It must be spewing some kind of happy dust in the theater, rendering all but irrelevant the fact that many of the jokes still fall flat and that the story's resolution, even by fairy-tale standards, comes too easily. Will today's theatergoers let such things bother them? This appealing production urges us all--whether we are pursuing business success or just...
This is not to say that the book should have had a graphic depiction of the assault on Reginald Denny (or Rodney King). On the contrary. I challenge the premise that we must deal with inflammatory events in books for little children. But if we are going to anyway, we should at least treat them with moral honesty. The L.A. riots were not some natural disaster...
...most notorious of these, the one that in 1980 helped launch the whole trend toward social realism for kids, is Hiroshima No Pika, a shockingly graphic picture book about the dropping of the atom bomb and the horrible deaths that ensued. The book is not coy about who caused the suffering...