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Might our children be told amid their sobs how this war began? My Hiroshima, another searing picture-book memoir, is typical. It has this single sentence of historical context: "In the winter of my fourth year at school, a big war started...
...best part about this movie are the wonderful dynamics between the three "tall tale" heroes. They from a triumvirate whose role alters in the context of each scene. They are the guardians of the land, and of a dying way of life. In a bar, a simple toast with mugs of beer becomes a mystic ritual, the personifications of the West (Pecos Bill), the South (John Henry) and the North (Paul Bunyan) saluting each other solemnly. They are also role models and surrogate fathers to Daniel. The heroes teach him to be self-sufficient, but in the end they...
Definitely, not the channels we're used to surfing. But within this context the television gains a new weight as a cultural icon, a mess of wires worthy of being considered along with the oil paints and bicycle seats of past art lore. It was not until the mid 1960s that artists began to use the commercially available portapak cammera as an artistic medium, and since then, the technical and conceptual sophistication of video art has increased dramatically. Gary Hill created his first video installation in 1974 and went on to become a prominent, internationally renowned video artist...
...Harvard's best assets is the house system," Chung said. "It really brings students together within the context of the larger university...
...Disrespect complicates the public perception painted by then-Presidential-nominee Bill Clinton and the media of the woman who suggested that "Blacks take a day off from killing each other and kill whites." Souljah uses the book to reclaim and define her context, one we rarely see up close--what life looks and feels and smells like from inside the concrete buildings of public housing projects, even once those buildings have been physically left behind...