From the elements of mass pictorial communication employed by newspaper ads, comics and art-history tomes text bubbles, flat colors, outlined figures, Benday dots he could make pictures of pictures that were both illustrative and abstract.

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The characters are shrill, cartoon-like figures, and the bubblegum text is so distended with italics, capital letters, lists, diagrams, poor jokes and faux parables that you end up wanting to stick it to the underside of your chair and leave it there.

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He added that he would set out rules which meant complaints figures must be clearly shown, not buried in much longer text.

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It had insisted on stripping all figures, even ones that did not apply to China, out of the text that finally became the Copenhagen accord.

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These doctors have become media figures almost larger than life-sometimes we can even reach out to them via email, text, Facebook and Twitter.

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