Word: suppressions
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...client at his worst and must present him at his best. The trick was to paint a heroic portrait, of a person with plenty to hide, and sell it to a columnist who'll sell it to the public. You'd plant or leak favorable items and try to suppress the scandalous ones. Publicity is the peddler's art, whose colors are rouge and noir, whose techniques are wheedling, pleading, trading and - if the press agent is Sidney Falco - lying, threatening and blackmailing...
...prosecutors could move to suppress Volpe's testimony. It's certainly true that the likelihood of convicting Schwarz is greatly diminished if Volpe testifies that he wasn't present...
...crackdown hasn't only targeted Falun Gong. A U.S. human rights organization last week publicized seven internal Chinese government documents that direct police not only to stamp out Falun Gong but to suppress unauthorized Roman Catholic and Protestant groups as well. The Vatican recently identified 33 Roman Catholic bishops and priests under detention or house arrest for maintaining allegiance to the Pope rather than to the Communist Party-approved church. And a Chinese court in December issued death sentences to five leaders of a 50,000-member evangelical Christian group?the South China Church?on charges of rape, although followers...
...human-rights atrocities of the 1990s, continuing in fact." Chomsky also laid much of the blame for the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds and the destruction of their villages - in "massive ethnic cleansing" - at the feet of the U.S., which provided Turkey with the military wherewithal to suppress the Kurds...
...unalienable. Those who suppress it are thieves. Those who make a value judgement on it are liars. To reach the pure form of art would be to interface directly with the artist’s own mind, which would be pregnant with images, not thoughts, not concepts, not words, not ideas. Images. The basis for all that we think. The ancient civilizations draw their literary roots from images, and 20th-century poets apply imagery and image-based literary techniques to their products of genius. Disappointingly, today’s art world fears to reject a creation...