Two Brazils also met head-on: one in which a small elite live with almost unfathomable wealth, and another in which millions eke out an existence on the margins of that abundance.
You look at "The Meaning of Life," and, in a lot of ways — especially the head-on ways in which it takes on that actual question, its scope and its utter lack of fear — it has no competition.
In his portrait, Mr. Wyeth employed a head-on format in which the subject confronts the viewer, a style often used for portraits of omnipotent or regal figures, said Elliot Bostwick Davis, the curator of the coming retrospective and the chairwoman of the Boston museum's arts of the Americas department.
Of the more than thirty-six trafficd faccidentsfin accidents in 2015, for instance, we don't know how many were the result of a single car hitting a tree, how many were head-on collisions in which both drivers perished, and how many were caused by a person who walked away physically intact but psychically wounded.
A one-year extension would mean the Republicans (in the House, and to a lesser extent in the Senate) would be forced to deal with the issue head-on in the next year, which wouldn't be all that bad a schedule.
Scott Caan, the 28-year-old son of James Caan, confronts this Oedipal problem head-on in his directorial debut, "Dallas 362," which he also wrote and in which he has a co-starring role.
For more than a decade, Will Self has been writing Wildean narratives of corruption and metamorphosis, and now he confronts the master head-on in an 'imitation' of Dorian Gray which does for the Diana generation what Wilde did for the late Victorians.
So whatever I say on the subject is bound to bring down somebody's wrath on my head - in which case I may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, and lay all my educational beliefs on the table at once, in all their offensiveness.
"You can pat it on the head, in which case it'll bite you.
Death, tear-inducing pain and agonizing treatment dilemmas are all confronted head-on in "A Lion in the House," which will be broadcast over four hours Wednesday and Thursday on PBS's series "Independent Lens".
