Word: screens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...effects of dubious provenance. Then there are the inserts, like the famous deck of playing cards, carrying pictures of Saddam Hussein and his leading henchmen, which was distributed to American troops in Iraq, Images of some of these cards, very handsomely photographed against black, fly artfully, abstractly across the screen in a manner that is distinctly at odds with the essential grubbiness of the extant stills and videos of the actual events at the prison. Finally, there are the ghosts - shadowy evanescent figures that are supposed to represent the unseen forces that ordered up the torments inflicted...
...computer screen, Rubinger clicks back to earlier photos from Israel's painful birth: a joyous swarm of men waving an Israeli flag on top of a British armored vehicle after the U.N. has announced its decision to set up a Jewish state; a fiercely beautiful Israeli woman soldier throwing a grenade; poor Moroccan migrants as they glimpse Israel from a ship's deck; a gaunt refugee bringing home live chickens for the Sabbath meal; David Ben-Gurion looking like a defiant Moses. Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon - Rubinger photographed them all in unguarded moments, stripped...
...Math Invaders” is any indication, the game will have to lure players before it can teach them. Perhaps a game that expands vocabulary using visual definitions, so you can learn to define “impale” when you see it happen on the screen...
...sustenance a human right. Farmer described plans that governments can pursue in order to maximize their health care potential and better assist the poor. The internationally acclaimed professor colored his account with anecdotes and images, interspersing them throughout his presentation. At one point, he characterized an emaciated man on screen as “suffering from the two diseases you’d expect, malaria and tuberculosis, [and] suffering from a third disease, poverty.” Farmer emphasized that comprehensive health care would have to come alongside socioeconomic support, saying more political will is necessary for the future success...
...cosmetic surgery is to maintain its unfortunate prominence in American culture, I hope at least that future efforts at depicting the industry, on the page and on the screen, will not ignore the risks associated with its procedures, and will take care not to promote entrenched stereotypes and harmful practices. Targeting a book in praise of plastic surgery to children is inherently perverse—so much so that I yearn for the nauseating tales of my own childhood that insisted: “Everyone is special in their...