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...last week. Nasrin Qasim Zai, who works in Kabul University's student registry says many of her friends are waiting for other women to lead the way. She pulls her light blue-colored burka back to reveal dark lipstick, gold earrings and faux leopard skin high heels. "Women will discard the burka only gradually as the security improves," she says, as she waits with friends for the bus home after work. "The important difference now is that we have a choice. Nothing's forcing us." Not Taliban dogma, or Western expectations...
Moreover, Levitt questions a photograph’s focal point. An artist would normally discard a print with such an interruption, but here, it is featured prominently. Simultaneously, Levitt creates as well as breaks geometry with straight and serpentine lines. Immediately, she personalizes and evokes the greater context of the city with her depth of field...
...personality. Pageant consultants teach contestants to layer on the make-up, rip off the wax, fill out the bra, and above all else, not to think too much. Interviews are not about authenticity; they’re about practice. Winning competitors must manufacture an identity and, in so doing, discard emotion and intellect in search of validation...
...size. The Treasury Department responded a few years ago by increasing the size of its portraits to the same size as those on the mark and other European currencies and by adding large blank spaces to bills, also a feature of the old European currencies. It even attempted to discard the dollar in favor of a coin...
...visions are not original, not interesting and not resonant with the world’s youth. No aspect of the multimedia extravaganza that is Britney Spears now fulfills the potential she once mastered. For all the runaway popularity she once enjoyed, Spears has made her greatest step yet to discard it entirely...