Word: rorschach
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...Warhol used income from celebrity portraits to fund experiments, including huge abstracts. They consist of scaled-up camouflage material or giant Rorschach blots: patterns intended to confuse the eye or to suggest things that aren't there. Smaller, darker paintings from the same period sprinkled with real diamond dust record shadows falling across his studio...
...created the fund as a safety net for the victims' families, to ensure that they maintain something resembling their current standard of living--whether they get assistance from private insurance or government money. The families see it as so much more. For the traumatized, the charts are like a Rorschach test. Some view the money as a halfhearted apology for the breakdown in security and intelligence that made the attacks possible. Others can't help seeing the award as a callous measure of their loved one's value. Many regard it as a substitute for the millions they think they...
...created the fund as a safety net for the victims' families, to ensure that they maintain something resembling their current standard of living - whether they get assistance from private insurance or government money. The families see it as so much more. For the traumatized, the charts are like a Rorschach test. Some view the money as a halfhearted apology for the breakdown in security and intelligence that made the attacks possible. Others can't help seeing the award as a callous measure of their loved one's value. Many regard it as a substitute for the millions they think they...
...epitome of extreme movie goddess worship: a smitten fan constructs a series of actual physical replicates of the star in various positions for his own erotic purposes. And in Manganese Dioxide Dreams the narrator pleasurably views his own stool specimens as if they were the ink blots of a Rorschach test. Yet no matter how far out Tanizaki goes, his narrative powers rarely diminish, always drawing the reader along with felicitous phrases or pithy descriptions such as: "The slum spread over the district like an overturned trash...
...afterthought, the site notes that "[b]ecause Giant has a Posse has no actual meaning, the various reactions and interpretations of those who view it reflect their personality and the nature of their sensibilities." The result is a foreshadowing of almost any result the Giant campaign will have--the Rorschach properties of knowledge are not at all unique to the Posse...