Word: visione
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...that it was even launching a space program. Its free press and parliamentary system?far from having collapsed, as Naipaul said?re-emerged triumphantly in 1977, when democracy was re-established. Yet Naipaul, who is praised for seeing things so clearly, saw none of India's strengths. Although his vision of the country has grown progressively more sympathetic, the idea that India's economy would one day become one of the world's most dynamic, that it would develop an outsourcing industry that would affect everyday life in America and Europe, is beyond the conception of Naipaul's journalism...
...protagonists were new to English literature, but his prose had the opposite virtue: simple and severe, it had a classical elegance that many felt had gone out of fiction since the literary experimentation of Modernism. As his novels grew darker, readers found a philosophy behind his work, a vision of the world as a relentless pressure that had to be resisted with grit and intelligence. But when Naipaul began churning out books of reportage on the countries he visited, the fiction writer shriveled: his 1980s and '90s were dominated by journalism, with a few exceptions such as his semiautobiographical novel...
...making of a print today is a very deliberate act. This is the story that is documented in this single room of the Fogg: history since the moment when the woodcut was the high-tech way to disseminate one’s art, and marked the acceleration of global vision, to the moment when the print is an antique process, a deliberate and elaborate activity whose moment of impression is used...
...rendering Sinclair's vision, Kuper uses the full power of his graphic style to remarkable effect. His airbrush effect implicitly evokes a sense of violence or sex gone wild, which perfectly matches the blood and sweat of the Chicago slaughterhouses. In the fertilizer factory, for instance, he makes it appear as if Jurgis is working in a literal shit-storm. By adding his own purely visual commentary, Kuper essentially doubles the power of the book's social message. The swirling winds turn into predatory monsters when Jurgis loses his job, for example. In spite of its bleak story, "The Jungle...
...political solution to the conflict off the table, using Palestinian terrorism as the rationale to advance an agenda quite different from the peace process that began with Oslo. Whenever he has faced domestic and foreign pressure for any movement, he's taken unilateral steps in pursuit of a vision that has little in common with a two-state solution as understood by negotiators on both sides of the Oslo process. The security wall is a case in point: The initiative to build a wall separating Israel from the Palestinians originated with the Labor Party, and was initially opposed by Sharon...