Until recently, the image of Alzheimer's was the clearly demented person with the sometimes vacant stare, unable to follow a conversation or remember a promise to meet a friend for lunch.
"When I'm preparing a role I learn my lines methodically – I go over and over them until the images of the character become clear," he says.
Before putting her jacket back on, Lucas called on Ed Vaizey, the minister for culture, communication and the creative industries, to support her in a campaign to remove the Sun from the Houses of Parliament until the images of topless women are removed from the paper.
Because Higham's biography of Flynn was not refuted until the late 1980s, the image of Flynn as a closet Nazi remained current all through the arduous process of writing and re-writing the script.
Though the bloody conflict in Syria is well-known, the full gravity of the refugee crisis did not seem to seize Canadians until September 2, when the image of the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach, went viral.
The first AIDS film would not come until the mid-1980s, buthehe image of Sebastian, pallid, listless and emaciated, casts "Brideshead" as a chilling predictor of the epidemic, 1981 being the year that cases of a syndrome later identified as AIDS were reported in the United States.
Fox delayed the premiere of "24" until tonight, after stripping out the image of a plane exploding, the work of a terrorist.
Until two months ago, this had been the image of America's mutual-fund industry, which had not been sullied by a single scandal for decades.
For a few hours, until it was finally removed, the image of five Olympic rings designed as handcuffs - fast becoming the alternative symbol of the Beijing games - was clear for all to see.
