The Burning, Bleeding, Breathing Art of Ana Mendieta..discomfited, The Tate Modern exhibition focuses on Mendieta’s connection to nature, but the artist also made rageful and erotic, violent and discomfiting works

 

Critic’s Notebook

The Burning, Bleeding, Breathing Art of Ana Mendieta

A Tate Modern survey of the artist’s lifetime of work sidesteps chronology to focus on her engagement with nature. But does that give us the whole picture?

discomfited, characterization, videotaped, frame, emphatic. The Tate Modern exhibition focuses on Mendieta’s connection to nature, but the artist also made rageful and erotic, violent and discomfiting works.Credit...

The Tate Modern exhibition focuses on Mendieta’s connection to nature, but the artist also made rageful and erotic, violent and discomfiting works.Credit...The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York, DACS; via Tate; Photo by Yili Liu

In Mendieta’s “Siluetas,” the artist recorded an ephemeral presence of her own outline after performing the pieces alone in the landscape.Credit...The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York, DACS; via Tate; Photo by Yili Liu

The expenses claim said the spending was listed as 'Minister and Spouse: dinner'.

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"I have asked Mr Heatley to explain the inconsistency and he has indicated to me that this was an unintentional error on his part, and he had not sought to mislead Ministerial Services in the characterisation of his claim.
On April 29, 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.

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Virginia Woolf mused on the unique quality of a Chekhov story in The Common Reader (1925):

But is it the end, we ask? We have rather the feeling that we have overrun our signals; or it is as if a tune had stopped short without the expected chords to close it. These stories are inconclusive, we say, and proceed to frame a criticism based upon the assumption that stories ought to conclude in a way that we recognise. In so doing we raise the question of our own fitness as readers. Where the tune is familiar and the end emphatic—lovers united, villains discomfited, intrigues exposed—as it is in most Victorian fiction, we can scarcely go wrong, but where the tune is unfamiliar and the end a note of interrogation or merely the information that they went on talking, as it is in Tchekov, we need a very daring and alert sense of literature to make us hear the tune, and in particular those last notes which complete the harmony.^[99]

Clinton Delivers Emphatic Plea for Unity

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By PATRICK HEALY

Published: August 27, 2008

DENVER — With her husband looking on tenderly and her supporters watching with tears in their eyes, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton deferred her own dreams on Tuesday night and delivered an emphatic plea at the Democratic National Convention to unite behind her rival, Senator Barack Obama, no matter what ill will lingered.

emphasize Show phonetics
verb [T]
1 (UK USUALLY -ise) to show or state that something is particularly important or worth giving attention to:
[+ question word] I'd just like to emphasize how important it is for people to learn foreign languages.
[+ that] He emphasized that all the people taking part in the research were volunteers.
You can use italics or capitals to emphasize a word in a piece of writing.

2 to make something more obvious:
Tight jeans will only emphasize any extra weight that you are carrying.

emphasis Show phonetics
noun [C or U] plural emphases
1 the particular importance or attention that you give to something:
I think we should put as much emphasis on preventing disease as we do on curing it.
Schools here put/place/lay great emphasis on written work and grammar.

2 the extra force that you give to a word or part of a word when you are saying it:
The emphasis is on the final syllable.
Where do you put the emphasis in the word 'controversy'?

emphatic Show phonetics
adjective
done or said in a strong way and without any doubt:
Poland reached the final of the championship yesterday with an emphatic 5-0 victory over Italy.
The minister has issued an emphatic rejection of the accusation.

emphatically Show phonetics
adverb
Johnson has emphatically denied the allegations against him.






frame
v., framed, fram·ing, frames. v.tr.

1. To build by putting together the structural parts of; construct: frame a house.
2. To conceive or design: framed an alternate proposal.
3. To arrange or adjust for a purpose: The question was framed to draw only one answer.
4. 1. To put into words; formulate: frame a reply.
   2. To form (words) silently with the lips.
5. To enclose in or as if in a frame: frame a painting.
6. Informal.
   1. To make up evidence or contrive events so as to incriminate (a person) falsely.
   2. To prearrange (a contest) so as to ensure a desired fraudulent outcome; fix: frame a prizefight.

v.intr.

1. Archaic. To go; proceed.
2. Obsolete. To manage; contrive.

n.

1. Something composed of parts fitted and joined together.
2. A structure that gives shape or support: the frame of a house.
3. 1. An open structure or rim for encasing, holding, or bordering: a window frame; the frame of a mirror.
   2. A closed, often rectangular border of drawn or printed lines.
4. A pair of eyeglasses, excluding the lenses. Often used in the plural: had new lenses fitted into an old pair of frames.
5. The structure of a human or animal body; physique: a worker's sturdy frame.
6. A cold frame.
7. A general structure or system: the frame of government.
8. A general state or condition: The news put me into a better frame of mind.
9. A frame of reference.
10. Sports & Games.
    1. A round or period of play in some games, such as bowling and billiards.
    2. Baseball. An inning.
11. A single picture on a roll of movie film or videotape.
12. The total area of a complete picture in television broadcasting.
13. An individual drawing within a comic strip.
14. Computer Science.
    1. A rectangular segment within a browser's window that can be scrolled independently of other such segments.
    2. A single step in a sequence of programmed instructions.
15. Informal. A frame-up.
16. Obsolete. Shape; form.

[Middle English framen, from Old English framian, to further, from fram, forward. See from.]

framable fram'a·ble or frame'a·ble adj.

[名]

1
(1) （窓などの）枠, 額縁；（鏡の）縁；((通例〜s))（眼鏡の）フレーム.
(2) （新聞・雑誌などの囲み記事の）枠, 囲み.

2 （建物・機械・家具・車・船・飛行機などの）骨組み；（機器の動作部分を支える）台枠；（ししゅうの）枠；《海事》フレーム, 肋材(ろくざい).

3 [U][C]（人 などの）体格, 骨格；（特に性的魅力のある女性の）上半身.

4 心の状態, 気分

be in a proper frame of mind to do ［for doing］
…するのにぴったりの気分である.

5 （抽象的な）構造物；（政治・社会などの）組織, 機構, 体制.

6 （ガラス張りの）温床, 温室, フレーム.

7 《野球》イニング, 回；《ボウリング》フレーム.

8 （フィルム・続き漫画の）1こま.

9 《コンピュータ》フレーム：動画像のもとになる静止画像の一こま.

10 《テレビ》フレーム：走査線の連続で構成される画面1枚.

11 《印刷》植字台；《製本》（本の表紙の）縁飾り.

12 ((俗))＝frame-up.

━━[動](他)

1 …を組み立てる, 形作る；〈計画などを〉立案［考案, 構想］する；〈詩・文書などを〉作る

frame a new tax bill
新 しい税法案をまとめる

frame a theory ［a rule, a story］
理論［規則, 話］を作り上げる.

2 〈考えなどを〉心にいだく；〈言葉・返事などを〉口に出して言う.

3 ［III[名]（[副]）］… を（目的に）合わせる((for ...))；［V[名]to do］（…するのに）合うように作る

a novel framed for younger readers
若い読者向けの小説.

4 ((略式))〈計画などを〉たくらむ, でっち上げる；〈試合などを〉仕組む, 八百長する((up))；〈人を〉陥れる, はめる, 〈人に〉ぬれ衣(ぎぬ)を着せる((up))

frame a scandal
醜聞 をたくらむ

frame a person up for murder
殺 人のぬれ衣を着せる.

5 〈絵・写真などを〉額に入れる；…を囲む, 縁どる.

━━(自)((古))

1 おもむく, 行く(go).

2 〈計画・行動などが〉進行［進展］する；進行［進展］の見込みがある.

［古英語framian （fram利益のある）利益が上がる→押し進める→建設する. △FROM］

frám・er

[名]考案［立案］者；額縁屋.

 characterization

 (kăr'ək-tər-ĭ-zā'shən) 
n.

1. The act or an instance of characterizing.
2. A description of qualities or peculiarities: a list of places of interest, with brief characterizations of each.
3. Representation of a character or characters on the stage or in writing, especially by imitating or describing actions, gestures, or speeches.

• 発音記号[kæ`riktərizéiʃən | -raiz-]

[名][U]

1 [U]（特性・人柄などの）（…であるとする）描写((of, as ...))；[C][U]特徴づけ.

2 性格描写.

vídeotàpe[vídeo・tàpe]

• レベル：大学入試程度

[名]ビデオテープ；[U]ビデオ録画.

━━[動](他)…をビデオテープにとる, 録画する. （また((英))vídeo-recòrd）

vídeo・tàper

[名]

discomfit[dis・com・fit]

• 発音記号[diskʌ'mfit]

[動](他)

1 〈人を〉完敗［敗走］させる.

2 〈人の〉意図をくじく, 〈計画などを〉妨げる, くじく.

3 ((しばしば受身))…を困惑させる, たじろがせる.

discomfited

To be discomfited means to feel confused, embarrassed, or uneasy, typically as a result of an unexpected situation, question, or confrontation. The term, which is the past participle of the verb discomfit, describes a state of mental disruption rather than physical pain. [1, 2]