Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a man evading process." A prestigious literary honor did nothing to change his mind; for that matter, he didn't go pick up the award. It made for a good story all the same. Here was a man with a fine hand with the language and a clear scope on the darkness out there, an impoverished artist on the high rim of his middle years, a writer whose books until Horses had never sold more than 2,500 copies in hard-cover, and here, with recognition and cash at last on his cheap tin plate, he wouldn't talk...
...last chapter titled "Reflections on Self, Spirit and Social Change," Ogden suddenly widens her scope. All within a few pages, she addresses feminist backlash, mass media and power hierarchy and raises some interesting questions about the political implications of changing gender roles. Yet by this time, near the very end of the book, these topics on longer seem appropriate with the mood set from the beginning, a navel in high relief. Overall, the book does not fulfill its original stated mission, but reduces itself to an entertaining article on sexual hocus-pocus...
...drama was immense for a measure that is so limited in its scope. The bill would ban the manufacture and sale of 19 types of assault weapons, a category of guns that constitutes only 1% of the firearms owned by the American public. Yet the bill's passage represents the second defeat in six months for a seemingly bulletproof gun-control lobby, which, spearheaded by the National Rifle Association, has managed for years to thwart even the smallest restrictions on ownership of guns. At the same time, the House vote is a victory for thousands of law-enforcement groups...
...Sharp Appetites" consists of three different approaches to the phenomenon of the female body in visual culture. "Fleshbags" is the most ambitious part of the exhibition because it spans the historical scope of the construction of female sexuality. Displays ranging from details of Botticelli's "Venus" to Manet's "Olympia" to Playboy cartoons remind the viewer that this is not just a criticism of a contemporary issue, but rather the problematic perceptions of the female body have been deeply imbedded and indoctrinated into social standards. The responsibility of art is a central issue; female nudes once considered the norm...
...those of you who are bitter and outraged that the Fine Arts department cut its surveys of Western art, you must stretch the scope of this outrage across the entire range of undergraduate education...