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...ut we're certainly not going to knock down a cross that's been there since the place was built," Brady said...
Hollusion 3-D prints are manufactured by the Texas-based NVision Grafix, Inc. According to the company's vice president of marketing, Steve Kersen, the computer-generated posters first came out in August of 1992, when two UT-Austin grads, computer specialist Mike Bielinski and artist Paul Herber, teamed up to create the high-tech aesthetics of Hollusions. The image appears because, by looking "through" the poster instead of at its surface, your brain is tricked. The altered focal point creates the illusion of a three-dimensional image...
...agree; the gang enforcement officer with the Portland police maintains that his town has "tolerance for different life-styles, as long as they're liberal life-styles. There's no tolerance for skinheads." Yet rival gangs of bald men with tattoos have now lent this chamomile-and-bean-spro ut metropolis a Mad Max edge...
Giorgione appeals more to modern taste because his imagery was more mysterious and poetic, and the idea that painting should mimic the effects of lyric or pastoral poetry, ut pictura poesis, was a favorite 16th century dictum. There is a word for it, Giorgionesque, an allusive quality that comes through even in conventional subjects, such as the exquisite portrait of a young knight surrounded by the gleaming black weapons of his vocation, a dense still life with religious overtones (the handle and pommel of the sword are also a cross), the bony silence of the knight's face contrasting with...
NAPALM. Bombs containing this gooey gel, made from fatty acids mixed with gasoline, produce a hellish inferno when ignited, burning up everything in the target area or splattering it with the searing, sticky jelly. The naked, screaming girl in Nick Ut's famous photo from the Vietnam War was a napalm victim. British officials say that in light of its infamous reputation the allies do not intend to use it against Saddam's troops. But napalm, which is most effective against massed troops out in the open, is among allied weapons stockpiled in the gulf, and U.S. officials...