Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait and see what sanctions could do, the next step would have to be rotation of U.S. troops out of the region. Their numbers would have to be cut to just enough to deter an Iraqi attack on Saudi Arabia. That kind of pullout would give Saddam a propaganda windfall by enabling him to claim a great victory over the foreign invaders. Once again, he could say, the Americans lacked staying power. After a year or two, even if Iraq's military strength has deteriorated badly, Washington could find it politically difficult to mount either a multinational or a unilateral...
...image of the King -- three faces, looking left, right and straight ahead -- from which the Roman artist was to work. Van Dyck's portraits of Charles and Queen Henrietta Maria fixed them for posterity with a completion that few later artists could rival. They have the subtlest quality of propaganda: they make you forget that they are propaganda. If we think of Charles as the cultivated king par excellence, it is largely thanks to Van Dyck. There cannot be a more tender and intimate royal portrait than his effigy of the couple in conversation in a rocky landscape, their bonding...
...suspected would be the case prior to planning the counter-protest, the demonstration was teeming with propaganda meant to discredit the United States, President George Bush (who was referred to as a "liar"), the allies of the United States (in particular Israel), the Harvard administration and, of course, the dominant white male establishment. Christopher J. Picotte...
Worst Talk-Show Host Saddam Hussein paraded his hostages before cameras for propaganda purposes, and as he smiled and stroked children's heads, made John Davidson look like Mr. Sincerity...
Activists eager to mobilize children do not hesitate to use show biz, though some might call it propaganda. Turner Broadcasting is producing a half-hour syndicated cartoon show in which a superhero named Captain Planet and a youth corps called the Planeteers valiantly fight villainous polluters like Dr. & Blight. The back cover of one issue of P3 (for Earth, the third planet from the sun), a glitzy new environmental magazine for kids, shows a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shouting to readers, "Hey, dudes! Earth is a cowabunga planet! Let's keep it radical...