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Celebrity Caricature Summary
1,166 words, approx. 4 pages
Celebrity caricature in America has become a popular twentieth-century permutation of the longstanding art of caricature—the distortion of the face or figure for satiric purposes—which claims an extensive tradition in Western art. For...
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Caricature Information
2,779 words, approx. 9 pages
A caricature is either a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness, or in literature, a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and...


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Romney: Clinton a European caricature
5/31/2007: 788 words, approx. 3 pages
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday criticized Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as a European caricature who would turn the United States into a welfare state.Speaking to about 200 people in Sioux City, Romney said he wanted to highlight the differences between himself and...
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Dismissal sought in prophet cartoon case
2/9/2007: 402 words, approx. 1 pages
A state attorney Thursday called for the dismissal of a court case brought by French Muslims against a satirical weekly that printed caricatures of the Prophet Mohamed, saying the cartoons denounce terrorists' use of the Muslim faith but do not damage Islam.The trial, which opened...
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Paper cleared in Muhammad drawings case
3/22/2007: 520 words, approx. 2 pages
A French court cleared a satirical weekly newspaper Thursday in a case brought by Muslims who were angered by its publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.The newspaper Charlie-Hebdo and its director, Philippe Val, were accused of "publicly abusing a group of people because of...
 


 

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