Word: oxymoronality
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Blind photography: the very concept sounds like an oxymoron. But an intriguing and often striking exhibition of photographs in Riverside, California, argues that it emanates from the core of contemporary art. The show "Sight Unseen," at the California Museum of Photography until Aug. 29, features everything from underwater scenes off Catalina Island, transvestites in New Orleans and Braille-enhanced black-and-whites as well as portraits, nudes, landscapes, travel shots, abstracts, collages, and everything else you might expect from a "sighted" photographer. Except the subtext and context is blindness: the photographers are legally blind, some born without sight or with...
...Caliber • self-proclamation of as "Republican rapper" turns out, as expected, to be an oxymoron...
...somewhat differently, offering an optimistic perspective on the current job market. “For people who were following the crowd into finance, it’s time to follow your passions,” Delle said. “In these markets where job security is almost an oxymoron, you want to do what you love.”—Staff writer Victor W. Yang can be reached at vyang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Afghanistan "The Right War": an oxymoron if ever there was one [July 28]. I was born when World War II was raging and served in the military during the Vietnam era. Fortunately, I wasn't called upon to kill or be killed, but tens of thousands of others were. There is no hope for peace on earth as long as war is considered the right thing to do. Each side in a war considers its cause to be right, including the Taliban and al-Qaeda, which call their wars "holy" - another oxymoron. When will people ever learn? Carlos Carrier, Long...
Your movie is an action stoner flick. Isn't that an oxymoron? Marnix Weber, WASHINGTON...