Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps MTV finds Madonna's graphic images disturbing. Perhaps MTV finds Madonna's themes immoral. But the list of creative geniuses who have used graphic images and controversial themes in their art includes just about every creative genius. If MTV wants concerned parents to be able to keep their children away from Madonna's videos, warning labels and late air times are perfectly appropriate. An all-encompassing ban only suppresses originality, discouraging artistic exploration...
...double-page spread on the Civil War, for example, provides a chart of slavery in the U.S. from 1790 to 1860, battle maps, a Mathew (misspelled Matthew in the text) Brady photograph, the Union and Confederate statistics at Gettysburg and graphic breakdowns of population, agriculture, manufacturing and finance in the North and South. An account briefly describes the origins of conflict and carries the war from secession to surrender. Related entries discuss the Reconstruction period and lead on to such topics as colonialism, states' rights, the career of Martin Luther King Jr. and Brown v. Board of Education...
...likens to "hot pants on a hooker." It may be deliberately oversize or emblazoned with URGENT warnings in bold red letters. It can be laser printed to make a boxholder's name appear handwritten, or stamped with an eye-fetching cancellation mark. "My job," explains Ted Kikoler, a Toronto graphic designer who works primarily for U.S. firms, "is to make people read the words, by hook or by crook...
...comedy -- part Manhattan, part Molotov -- skewers countless foibles while musing on the chief irony of urban life: how closely related people are, yet how distant they feel. Stockard Channing stars in this transfer, from off-Broadway to on, as a moneyed matron stirred by vague (and then graphic) discontents...
After studying student learning patterns, professors at Harvard this year designed courses around the use of graphic calculators and computer programs. And while graphing has traditionally come secondary in most calculus courses, the focus in many classes has now shifted to ideas and pictures, instead of formulas...