Analyzing newspaper excerpts, weighing objectivity, interpreting figurative language and identifying grammatical and structural errors came easily.
The commercial implies that the state's medical facilities are houses of horror, but in actuality the newspaper excerpts that deride Mr. Pataki center on one issue: the treatment of the mentally ill, which has prompted several federal investigations.
The title page of "Octavian Nothing" presents Anderson (like novelists from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Richardson) as merely the editor of a compilation that relies on Octavian's testimony, printed ephemera and newspaper excerpts, scientific articles and private letters.
Sharon Fennell, a mother of three in Belfast, Northern Ireland, whose 8-year-old son is autistic, said she had read newspaper excerpts and reviews in Britain, where the book came out last month.
For maximum effect, Mr. Kiely has displayed the fragment with original newspaper excerpts describing the coffin's contents: "The flesh and the funeral robes of course had crumbled to dust, and there was nothing left but the bare bones and a few clumps of hair attached to the skull, to tell that a body had once been there".
Moreover, in an era when teenagers have been increasingly drawn to graphic novels, the book itself was interesting as an object: the narrative had to be traced through an archive of maps, newspaper excerpts, pages with words crossed out by a quill pen, diary entries, scientific reports and letters in various hands.
Table 1 Color reference target detection results on a heterogeneous dataset consisting of books, newspaper excerpts, and photographs Color checker Orientation Horizontal Vertical Total 0° 180° 90° 270° Total Scans 115 13 109 2 239 Failed Detections 2 0 5 0 7 Precision 98.4 98.4 98.4.
Our test set consists of 239 test images including photographs and various printed documents (newspaper excerpts, book pages) digitized by the German National Library as part of the use case Contentus in the Theseus program [30].
(The piece harkened immediately to an earlier essay, "Why Chinese Parents Are Superior," which the newspaper excerpted from Amy Chua's memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother).
Donald R. Blumberg's prints are blown-up newspaper excerpts during the Vietnam era, highlighting different types of absurdities, from one publication's attempt to highlight the supposedly humane conditions of a battalion served "milk flown from Hawaii" and shown "movies nearly every night", to a stark story from the Daily News of an American soldier massacring Vietnamese children.
