Word: impressionism
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The next step is to patch in some disconnected quotes from Modern Life, like a comic-strip balloon, a '30s car, a nude or an outline drawing of a chair. These can be repeated from picture to picture, thus giving the impression that such images are obsessive, a la Jasper...
Watching a game in Detroit is a graduate course in capturing the magic of the old-time ball parks. Unlike the ivy-clad perfection of Wrigley Field or the self-congratulatory ugliness of Fenway Park, 79-year-old Tiger Stadium represents the last remaining link with baseball before it became...
Gordon and Riger criticize the media on seemingly contradictory grounds. The authors claim that "the media exaggerate both the prevalence and the seriousness" of crime, leading women to believe that rape is more common and violent than is actually true. But they later point to the lack of coverage of...
One gets the impression that this is a familiar position for Fauth--existing as part of a world, and carrying the banner of that world, but at the same time standing out from that world, not knowing exactly how or why to fit in.
From the Hardly Surprising Department: No doubt the Undergraduate Council wanted to make a good first impression on Harvard's new president. Unfortunately, the following letter--proposed in the April 7 docket--somehow slipped past the council's Proofreading Committee: