Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the system of rent control used in Cambridge is in many ways inadequate, it has managed to preserve 17,000 units of housing for low-and moderate-income city residents. Although critics of the system love to depict it as riddled with abuses, most of the available data on the subject indicates that rent-controlled housing generally does go to the people who need...
...they all look so tempting. Two coupons depict neat-looking couples with neat-looking haircuts and ambiguous expressions on their faces. The rebate is prominently displayed: "$6 off, cut and style." There's no price listed, but it must be an expensive procedure if they can reduce it $6 for me. Back at home, that would make...
...Again in 1984, Rather narrated a segment claiming to depict 4,000 Afghans fleeing their villages near Kabul out of fear of Soviet attacks. Etabari told the Post that the film was shot miles away at the Afghan-Pakistani border...
...only is Breathed recycling the same punchline every week, he apparently intends to depict the same event over and over. The plot of every strip so far has been the passage of Ronald Ann into this Outland. The first strip showed her walking through a door, and all the episodes since have retold that event in a new way. Last Sunday the mouse and the rat kidnapped Ronald Ann in between a gang war and a rabid alleycat. Breathed's attempt to show us the variation possible in any given even is certainly an attempt to deliver modern...
...over the globe, advertising is becoming more multiracial. Many ads in Japan, which often used to depict blonds because they represented the Western good life, are populated by blacks, Asians and Latins. "Japanese consumers now want to see somebody unique and somebody they can easily empathize with," says Hidehiko Sekizawa, senior research director for Hakuhodo, Japan's second & largest ad agency. In France the two hottest commercials of the summer, for Schweppes and Orangina, featured Brazilian music and casts of brown-eyed, mixed-race beauties...