This design research seminar will focus on visual and formal methodologies for the production of an architecture of trickery, deception, confusion, illusion, and hiding in plain sight through manipulation of two-dimensional pattern and three-dimension form.
Under the present accounting rules, there is a very fine line between "maximizing" and plain, old-fashioned manipulation.
"This is manipulation, plain and simple.
Moreover, Professor Xiaomeng Zhang and colleagues from the American University have examined the relationship between stock options and earnings manipulations; plain illegal behavior.
Oh, sure, the characters in this belated coming-of-age story embrace the nastier forms of self-expression long associated with Mr. LaBute's writing: polluted streams of invective, insults that draw blood, raunchy sexual slurs, face-crushing fights and the killing of innocent pet fish — all deployed in the pursuit of dominance, retaliation, coldhearted manipulation or plain old viciousness.
The benefits of direct manipulation are plain; we've all been exposed now to how a well-designed touchscreen interface can make many tasks easy and natural, much more so than a mouse.
That's emotional manipulation and just plain rude.
Those who claimed that there was no price manipulation here were just plain wrong".
But turning this into television involves a level of manipulation, sentimentality and just plain cheesiness that for some will render the proceedings difficult to watch.
This minuet of political marketing may play well in the west, but not in the Arab world, where the double standards and manipulation are all too plain to see.
That is, radiolucent cavities or intra-articular gas bubbles have been observed on plain film radiographs following distractive thrust manipulations of the third metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints.
