Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DURING THE VIETNAM ERA the would viewed Indochina through a blood-spattered lens crammed with searing images: napalmed and massacred villagers: a defiant Buddhist monk remaining upright during the final stages of self-immolation; a Vietcong suspect being shot point-blank through the temples; Khmer Rouge soldiers axing civilians; a...
The French have long been celebrated for their enthusiastic worship of The Woman--the femina who is perfect, whose beauty and sex rating is sky-high. The petty irritation of what happens on their streets inevitably reflects that. But it also holds up a focusing lens to something we in...
The world looks at Japan through one lens, the Japanese see themselves through another. Japan is a global force with an insular mentality, a superior organism that still harbors the soul of a small, isolated land. Living on their archipelago in the "Pacific Ring of Fire," vulnerable as always to...
Down the long corridors of the Tokyo University of Arts and in the crowded classrooms of the Toho Gakuen school, the technicians are at work, taking the measure of one of Japan's hottest imports. They pore over its structure as carefully as they would over a new automobile...
The entourage steers her (still talking) toward the studio. Sprinting through a door into a living room-like set, she drops daintily onto a white sofa. A quick glance into a hand mirror. Perfection. As the television camera's red light blinks on, she smiles serenely into the lens...