Beyond the sheer graphic impact of so much disease, distortion and disfigurement, what distinguishes them is an acute paradox: here the styles and modes of bygone eras are used not to prettify people or create a picturesque landscape, but to render the pathological as clearly as possible with a view to instructing physicians.
Bankers was fined $64m earlier this year after admitting that it had transferred unclaimed customers' funds to prettify its balance sheet.
Can you point to someone "who makes art out of working-class lives by refusing to prettify them"?
And, thanks to the no doubt well-meaning but bizarre concept of "social promotion", up to 300,000 students who fail to pass exams each year are still automatically passed up to the next grade.In this section To traffic hell and back A surfeit of disaster The hobbled cheerleader Oh, Lord Rudy v Rudy Unsafe waters Prettify it, or get rid of it?
Glenn Anderson, a Coast Guard captain, says his formal report on the Lake Hamilton drownings will recommend both the obligatory wearing of jackets and the installation of canopies that can be punctured more easily if a boat starts to sink.In this section To traffic hell and back A surfeit of disaster The hobbled cheerleader Oh, Lord Rudy v Rudy Unsafe waters Prettify it, or get rid of it?
As one Atlantan all-too-typically concludes, "Why not just drive there and listen to the radio?"In this section To traffic hell and back A surfeit of disaster The hobbled cheerleader Oh, Lord Rudy v Rudy Unsafe waters Prettify it, or get rid of it?
But Wal-Mart's plans to prettify its shops have not progressed beyond the construction of an experimental new supercentre in Plano, Texas, which boasts such frills as a sushi bar and wireless internet access.Could Wal-Mart channel its ambitions into other countries?
Plans to prettify stations have been shelved in favour of work that boosts the carrying capacity of trains.
By contrast, in a nation as religious as America, acts of nature are deemed God's will, to be accepted without rancour.In this section To traffic hell and back A surfeit of disaster The hobbled cheerleader Oh, Lord Rudy v Rudy Unsafe waters Prettify it, or get rid of it?
It buys the argument that China is gradually getting better at respecting human rights.Mr Nathan and Mr Ross do not prettify China's human-rights record but they seem sympathetic to the idea that poor countries treat their own people more harshly than rich ones do.
Mr Attlee tries valiantly to understand, and then to frustrate, the well-meaning busybodies who want to prettify the road and clear its pavements of the sprawling wares of his beloved Asian greengrocers.
