Word: indistinction
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...look to us now that the hype has dimmed? Just as it is in music and fashion, in the realm of art, it's a decade that remains a sore spot. It introduced artists whose work has enduring fascination. Cindy Sherman's photographs of herself in the guise of indistinct movie heroines, Jenny Holzer's dream jottings on electronic ticker-tape signs, Elizabeth Murray's shaped canvases--all that arrived in the '80s. So did inflated reputations and a superheated art market that eventually crashed, taking some of the biggest names down with it. All the same, despite its frequent...
...wounded Iraqi civilian awaiting emergency medical assistance, while Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a contributor to TIME and CNN, operated on a critically injured 2-year-old who later died. The lines these men crossed may seem important in peacetime, but in wartime such lines grow fuzzy and indistinct compared with the bold line that separates life and death, and this was the line where they chose to make their stand, their professional codes of conduct be damned. When one is lost in a sandstorm, deafened by artillery and surrounded by primal cries of agony, an ethical lapse can be a moral...
However, this strict, formal observance of a code between the accepted interaction between blacks and whites becomes almost indistinct when it comes to relations of gender depicted in the play...
...Martha Diamond (VES 4abr, “The Art of Color”). Filled with large—even careless—brush strokes, the first of Diamond’s two paintings exudes a dark, smoggy, compact atmosphere, evoking the scene of hazy, indistinct skyscrapers. “Untitled (City)” (2001), on the other hand, blazes with brilliant hues: oranges, yellows bleeding onto a bright blue sky, with smoke rising out of a skyscraper. Diamond’s untitled painting seemed eerily and painfully reminiscent of Sept. 11—or perhaps that is simply...
Most likely, he is some indistinct combination of all three. But lawyers often skate over such complexities, and last week the U.S. Department of Justice and Lindh's liberal San Francisco attorney, James Brosnahan, squared off with simpler stories. If the case against Lindh goes to a jury, as Brosnahan predicts, it will turn on which story seems more plausible...