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...appears because as vivid and visceral as Human Smoke is, it has a maddeningly slippery quality. In presenting bare facts unadorned by any commentary, Human Smoke cloaks itself in an aura of limpid, virtuous purity. But beneath that cloak, things get a little murky because in presenting the facts as he does, Baker is making an argument that he doesn't explicitly state. Does he really believe--as he seems to--that aerial bombing is on a moral continuum with Nazi genocide? And that Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews is comparable to Churchill's hatred of the Germans...
...Processional Way, there were palaces whose glazed bricks were adorned with 120 images of lions to honor Ishtar, the goddess of love and war. The road terminated at the Ishtar Gate, a massive structure encompassing the five fortification walls and rising more than 75 ft. (23 m). On its vivid blue, glazed-brick façade appeared 150 bulls and dragons, alternating in yellow and white, to honor Adad, the god of wind, and Marduk, Babylon's chief deity. Panels also depicted the mushhushshu, a dragon-like creature covered in scales - its front legs feline, its hind legs belonging...
...diversity.” More than 300 students performed in the two shows, with about 2,000 audience members throughout the day. “Although there are statistics about how diverse Harvard is, when I stand in the wing and look out into the audience, it becomes very vivid,” said Amanda R. Mangaser ’10, who co-directed the first show. During Show I, University President Drew G. Faust presented Hancock with an Artist of the Year plaque, saying, “In my view, this legend, this icon is artist of the generation...
...barcode face tattoos,” “vegan cannibals,” and barbarians that use “the juice from cell phones” as war paint. Tribal drums and Collins’s menacing vocals perfectly communicate Moore’s vivid imagery, producing one of the most unique and exciting songs in the Dirtbombs’ catalog. Through their previous albums and seemingly infinite output of singles, the Dirtbombs have built a reputation as one of the best cover bands in the business, recording their own takes on popular artists as varied as Elliot...
...content of the vision they had been vouchsafed. Two of them died in childhood during an epidemic; but in 1941, Lucia, the survivor and by then a nun, released a description of the first two "secrets" from the Virgin that made headlines all over the world. One was a vivid vision of Hell; the other was a prediction that World War I would end, but "if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI." Both would have qualified as prophecy back in 1917. So would an even more topical prediction...