The city's authorities may be no match for pixação, but there are signs that the market forces that have co-opted graffiti and transformed it into an "acceptable" urban expression now hope to do the same with pixação.
The shark of "Jaws," as conceived by Peter Benchley, the author of the best-selling 1973 novel, is a natural predator exaggerated just enough to turn it into an acceptable horror-story nemesis: it's described as a "rogue," with atypical feeding patterns that almost suggest a purpose, a malevolent will; and it's larger than normal, making it, of course, that much harder to kill.
Through her work, Cisneros critiques the pressures Chicanas face to suppress their sexuality or channel it into socially acceptable forms so as to not be labeled "Malinchista[s]...corrupted by gringa influences which threaten to splinter [their] people".
There is a huge amount of work to get it into an acceptable state, where people will be screaming to come and buy it.
Most of their clients are African Muslims, and the operation has come to be incorporated into "acceptable" Islamist practice — which, of course, it's not.
Responses to the questions regarding the acceptability of treatment were grouped into "acceptable" or "unacceptable" for the purposes of analysis.
Only relatively minor modifications are needed to turn it into a more acceptable system.
Instead, 94% of their sample sentences (2619 in all) made it into the "completely acceptable" or "completely unacceptable" categories, the researchers reported here this month at the Linguistic Society of America meeting.
Over time, society categorizes these feelings into acceptable and unacceptable, and the mask of performance creates a more accepted form in which to express them.
The group has found that 95% of analogue chips can eventually be coaxed into acceptable performance.
