Word: propagandas
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There are pictures released recently by the Korean Central News Agency, the propaganda arm of the North Korean government, that are meant to give the impression that Kim Jong Il is back running his benighted country after a stroke last summer. And then there are those shown here, of Kim at an indoor swimming pool. He looks old, frail and sick. The pictures, according to diplomats and intelligence analysts in East Asia and Washington, capture reality. Kim is 68, and though it is thought he has made a reasonable recovery, he has apparently not resumed all his duties as North...
...uncomfortable. But a duck being uncomfortable in the last days before it's slaughtered, is that torture? I think of torture as a willful sadistic administration of pain and by that measure, I don't think it is. Torture is one of those loaded words that's effective as propaganda, but not particularly accurate as a description...
...nonspecific social and personal malaise. It was never Kentridge's way to tackle South African history head on. As a white South African, he once described himself as living at the "edge of huge social upheavals yet also removed from them." During the apartheid years, he didn't make propaganda films about the bitter fruits of the regime. Instead, he contrived melancholy parables about the psychological predicaments of life within a brutal and brutalizing system. You sense he's a man who would be happy to retreat into his own world if only the larger world weren't always drumming...
Yeah...that was a picture of Leverett at the end, but who's counting. Finally, Eliot has a little piece of propaganda of its own, staging a dramatic battle with Kirkland for all the freshman in Annenberg...
Speaking of propaganda, the Brattle is showing "Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan." These were pieces made for distribution in Europe, and most of the five flicks have never been seen in the U.S. before. Also, for a joint Friday the 13th/St. Paddy's Day celebration, on Friday night at 10 p.m. they'll be playing the "horror" film "Leprechaun," in which a wee green man terrorizes Jennifer Aniston. (Marshall Plan films run March 12-19; for showtimes see website...