Word: propagandas
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...culture cops occasionally shutter avant-garde exhibitions. Nevertheless, ironic depictions of Chairman Mao and not-so-subtle critiques of official corruption or urban alienation fill Beijing and Shanghai galleries. Some artists, particularly those who grew up during the Cultural Revolution, playfully twist that era's socialist-realist propaganda art - think heroic laborers, red-cheeked peasants and stalwart soldiers lifting banners with brand names or consumerist messages. Best known among these political popsters is Wang Guangyi, whose painting of Mao behind bars sold for $4 million last month...
...whose columns on former President Bill Clinton’s affair with intern Monica Lewinksy won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1999, said the Bush administration has sought to create an “alternate reality” by “spending hundreds of millions on self-aggrandizing propaganda.” And the Fourth Estate has been central to holding the White House in check, she said. “The American public just has a wonderful sense of who they trust and who they don’t,” she said. “Sometimes...
...world domination.” Although the introductory sequence of “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” reminds viewers that Islamic terrorists are but one slice of the entire Muslim population, one must dig deep into TAP’s propaganda to find such a concession. Elsewhere, the only statements made concerning Islam are of the “lies” Americans are fed regarding the religion as an inherently peaceful one. The most unfortunate aspect of TAP’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, however, is the missed opportunity...
...wants to tell the truth. She says, ‘I can’t write this story. There’s no truth in it. It’s all propaganda,’ and the editor says, ‘Are you kidding? Do you think upstairs is going to go for that...
Rorty compares Nabokov, the author of aesthetic bliss who despised all vulgar political propaganda and “topical trash,” with Orwell, the earnest, morally courageous author of clumsy allegories. He bases his ideal of the “liberal ironist” on this opposition, confronting the unsettling truth that the Nietzschean ethic of self-creation and eternal struggle can often conflict with the liberal politics of J.S. Mill...