Word: rorschach
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...campaign trail, he is a political Rorschach test. People see in him what they want to see. In Maryland, zealous Campaign Worker Ellen McCarthy views him as the candidate most like her father Eugene McCarthy. But Brown's Rhode Island vice chairman, State Senator Guide Camilla, who describes himself as a 'hardcore conservative,' sees Brown as someone whom conservatives could rally round...
...underwater cameras in the loch and obtained a picture that showed a large mass with what some experts identified as a flipper-like appendage. Last summer Rines' cameras took thousands more shots beneath the murky loch's surface and produced two more photographic equivalents of a Rorschach test...
...with Marilyn Monroe, but Oscar Levant is shown as a fading Neanderthal man. The 40-ft.-wide mural of the eleven-member American Mission Council to Saigon (TIME, April 21) during the Viet Nam War (including General Creighton W. Abrams and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker) can be used as a Rorschach test, asking the viewer to make a judgment of the members' guilt or innocence...
...Darrach. Yet the central figure of this livery book comes through loud, clear and not a little screechy. Though Fischer is a kind of walking Rorschach test open to all manner of interpretations, most of them bad, Darrach grants him his due. As he notes, many of the seemingly outlandish demands Bobby has made over the years have not only been justified but have since been adopted as rules for tournament play. Al though he recently resigned his world title because chess officials rejected additional demands, Fischer has more than made good his own bold promise:"I'm gonna...
Kenneth Clark called Leonardo "the great Sphinx of art history," but he was also its great Rorschach blot. The past century has seen almost as many Leonardos as there have been léonardistes. Magus, "Renaissance man," supergay, world's first nonlinear thinker -the parade of stereotypes marches on. At one moment he struck the Victorians as a prototype of the engineer-hero, a 15th century Brunel or Edison who lacked only the omnipotent semen of capital to make his projects real. At the next, the English 19th century aesthete Walter Pater wrote of his mechanical inventions as mere...