Now, some soft focus images of those delicious dishes.
In each soft-focus image, the bride — a 25-year-old former clothing vendor named Xue Ying — appears in a strapless white gown and a glittering tiara.
Here we are presented with the soft-focus image of a couple that celebrated their lifelong commitment to each other by going to watch a woman – who, according to a report by the Pulitzer Centre, probably earned around £115 a month and had likely been trafficked from Laos or Cambodia – fire things out of her vagina.
The only celebrity who defies easy packaging is Elizabeth Taylor, shown laughing as she flips off an imagined paparazzo — just as she flouted Hollywood protocol in her lifetime, supporting fellow actors with AIDS, or an embattled Michael Jackson, who is shown here in a soft-focus image that assuages the jolting peculiarity of his surgically transformed face.
We may fondly remember Little Women as a soft-focus image of a perfect childhood, but it was never as gritty as Alcott probably wanted it to be.
Franju provides a brief, unforgettable glimpse of what lies beneath, in terms of the physical damage: a soft-focus image that hits hard.
Soft-focus images of infants or families are used to hawk cars, insurance, coffee, prescription drugs.
"Some will doubt you," said the narrator in the ad over soft-focus images of mostly young, ethnically diverse strivers.
"My son Matthew was viciously murdered simply because he was gay," Ms. Shepard says in the commercial, which is filled with soft-focus images of her son.
Despite the all-around skepticism implied by these twists, the overall effect of Mr. Zhou's work, with its soft-focus images, is disarmingly pleasing, the visual equivalent of synthesizer-produced New Age "Chinese" music.
You know the formula by heart: The slow-motion, soft-focus images of the candidate interacting with students in a classroom, talking with senior citizens, walking with construction workers, shaking hands with police officers.
