Word: tracee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also uses the camera as an implement to trace the outlines of certain features. For example, the first time we encounter Martin's mother, we see the child Martin's hands outlining and feeling her lips, neck and chest; she reprimands him with the statement, "Fingers aren't the same as eyes...
...trace the genesis of this problem to the "teach-ins" popularized during the Vietnam War. These quickly became simply anti-war rallies and, unfortunately, many of us on the faculty, dead set against the war, lent ourselves to the occasions without troubling to make explicit the difference between honest teaching and propaganda...
...also continues to insist that he needs at least three hours of screen time to trace the dramatic transformations of Malcolm's life: from the street hustler who sold drugs and women into the charismatic spokesman for the Black Muslims who preached black self-determination and antiwhite rhetoric and, finally, into the orthodox Muslim who made a hajj to Mecca and embraced universal equality. The studio would prefer a brisk compression of the story. Twice in the past month, Lee and studio executives have faced off in shouting matches in which Lee cited Oliver Stone...
...example, one might choose to trace the representations of the Theseus story before, during and after the Golden Age in order to see which elements were emphasized pictorially. One could consider what the stress of, say, the violence of the scene or the ornateness of the dress, signifies...
...Divina Trace examines the nature of science and religion, of history and myth, of language and subjectivity. The novel contains level after level of meaning, but it manages to escape being ponderous. Its metafictional tendencies (myths contained within myths, which contradict, criticize and salute each other and all stories) are balanced by Antoni's attention to his readers. Antoni spins a myth, but does not forsake his audience--he does not forget that a story should be enjoyable to read...