"It was an investigation: Who are we, and how did we become the way we are?" The text of the book starts with a simple but telling declaration — "The essence of a portrait has more to do with enigma than with certainty" — and this conflict between seeing and not seeing emerges gradually throughout.
The title song itself, an awful Streisand-esque MOR anthem, is a telling sonic declaration that rock 'n' roll is also dead.
In 1985, after a day of black asphyxiating smog over the capital city, Mr. Aridjis rallied 100 Mexican artists and intellectuals to sign a declaration telling the government, "This contamination is killing us all".
But beyond that, and unusually for him, he let his hair down when the moderate Republican, Illinois Senator Orville H. Browning, one of his oldest and closest friends and supporters, wrote him on September 17 defending Frémont's declaration — a telling demonstration of just what a chord Frémont had struck.
But the "narcomantas," the banners that criminal gangs use for public declarations, tell a different story.
For Wednesday's much-hyped closer, Cyrus brought Madonna onstage for an ungainly mash-up of "We Can't Stop" and Madonna's "Don't Tell Me," two declarations of pop-star intransigence from women who've faced plenty of opposition.
As Right Wing Watch first reported, Fischer, who is no stranger to anti-gay declarations, told listeners, "I firmly believe the homosexual agenda represents the greatest single threat to religious liberty we have ever seen in the history of our existence as a nation".
Declarations tell what you want to do with the element defined in the selector of the style.
And he called a city plan to build casinos "a declaration of war," telling reporters, "I'm going to protect my home turf".
Mr Reinfeldt's declaration was a telling illustration of how closely he has modelled the rejuvenation of Sweden's centre right on the creation of New Labour in the 1990s.
