Word: graphics
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...maintaining authority. Vargas Llosa's scenes of official murder and sanctioned torture are fulsome enough to have been written by the other Mario, the late best-selling author Mario Puzo. Like the father of The Godfather, the Peru-born Vargas Llosa has a talent for the graphic. There are no horses' heads or garrotings, but Trujillo's thugs have their ways: "Between sessions in the electric chair, they dragged him, naked, to a damp cell...To keep him from sleeping they taped his lids to his eyebrows..." You would not want to push the comparison much further, except...
...Aaliyah 's videos, for the most part, are about mood, not about storylines. They are usually lushly shot and infused with sexual tension, though not in overt and obvious ways. There are small shocks in her videos, but not graphic ones; she usually dances in her clips, but the sequences never look heavily choreographed. In general, Aaliyah 's videos tend to have a languid, liquid feel. They flow past the eye - rivers of color and skin and light. While most videos on MTV tend to leave the viewer amped up and hyped up and full of energy, Aaliyah 's videos...
...head, Christine took the eyedropper tool, the shaded box and the Futura font and went to town. Quicker than lightening, Christine is one of the most thoughtful, clever designers ever to “massage the text.” FM has no doubt that Christine will rise to graphic stardom...
...most neurotic proofer around, Steve will go to all ends of the earth to make sure FM’s proofs are perfect. And we sure appreciate it. One night, Steve literally looked up the international patent rules that covered a tiny graphic that he was unsure of. Luckily, we were legal. Steve, a PBK and a medieval history jock, will somehow get a free ride at either Oxford or Cambridge. Just because he’s that smart...
...will fail to meet the Arthurian tests hypocritically set for them by some of those who routinely oppose military action by the West - still we must not become callous or inured. It should be, on balance, an advantage in a democracy to be faced with the implications - even in graphic terms - of our actions...