McDougall, who is a Pulitzer Prize- winning historian at the University of Pennsylvania, opens "Freedom Just Around the Corner" with an arresting statement: "The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past 400 years".
McDougall began the first volume, "Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828," withethe arresting statement that the United States was "the central historical event of the past 400 years".
Recent curators have gone either for the safe bet a state-of-play show with a bit of everything for everyone or for an arresting statement.
In many a Saariaho piece, an arresting sonic statement is presented at the start, big in impact but full of small voices that subtly fragment, bloom, or disappear.
The colored inks, 14 in total, as determined by two leading Faulkner scholars, are an arresting visual statement of Faulkner's daring technique and a helpful navigator for Benjy's fractured, far-flung storytelling.
The show's peak was "Not Ready to Make Nice," the arresting position statement from the group's last album, their first following the 2003 brouhaha in which they criticized President George W. Bush, to the distaste of the country music establishment.
The controversial Thai artist Vasan Sitthiket's "Committing Suicide Culture: The Only Way Thai Farmers Escape Debt" (1995) is an installation of plywood figures hanging by their necks in the midst of rice husks, a visually arresting political statement on Thailand's agricultural policy.
Neither is as arresting a statement as the relatively obscure folk tune Cyrus covered at last month's iHeartRadio Music Festival — the early-'70s Melanie song in which she accused the audience of picking her brain "like a chicken bone".
Los Angeles Times Mikael Wood suggested that "Someone Else" was not as effective or "as arresting a statement" as Cyrus' cover version of "Look What They've Done To My Song" by Melanie Safka; he implied that "Someone Else" suffered from its "hollowed-out beat" and production values.
Regarding the song's arrangement, Shapiro commented, "Musically, 'Little Wing' is structured to lay a gossamer touch across the whole song from the arresting opening statement and the haunting glockenspiel to the use of a Leslie speaker cabinet for the guitar".
In court, prosecutors played clips of Rana's post-arrest statement to the FBI, in which he said he knew Headley had trained with Lashkar, which the US has declared a terrorist organisation.
