Word: propaganda
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...world. "Students don't trust us," says Walter Grünzweig, a professor of American studies at Germany's Dortmund University, where the number of students applying for exchange programs to the U.S. has roughly halved since 2004. "We have to convince them we're not part of the propaganda branch of the American Embassy...
...Columbine.” In his stead is a veritable egomaniac, feeding off fans’ effusive praise. In an early sequence, Moore uses footage of women screaming wildly for him; a few scenes later, he proudly tells a crowd, “My movies are the anti-propaganda!” For an ostensibly political film, the movie is overwhelmingly centered on its own documentarian. Part of the problem may lie in overlap; having already covered the Bush presidency in 2004’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” Moore seems unable to find a focal...
...only heard of the big artists. Zhou Tiehai with his computer-generated superimpositions of Joe Camel’s face onto famous Western paintings, or Wang Guangyi and his retooling of propaganda posters to incorporate an excessive amount of corporate logos. Yue Minjun’s trademark is fashioning representations of his face while smiling (in every medium imaginable), and then, of course, there is the work of Zhang Xiaogang whose black-and-white paintings of 1950s era Chinese families have sold for upwards of US$2 million at auction. While these men are undoubtably the blue chip artists...
...saying I'm an impressionable tool of mass propaganda, but those recent Microsoft ads really got to me. While some folks hated the (short-lived) Bill Gates--Jerry Seinfeld series that kicked off the campaign, it cracked me up. It also got my attention, and the subsequent "I'm a PC" ads closed the deal: I've been thinking maybe it's time to buy a laptop...
...usual propaganda,” she said. “A lot of people are not really specialists in the region, so it flies if he spins questions around...