spectacle, overseer, speculum, made a spectacle of himself. Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty offering a new approach to issues of the status of the artist and the construction of identity, gender, sexuality, and celebrity in the Edo period,

PUTIN'S VICTORY SPECTACLE.

Tuesday Briefing: Putin’s victory spectacle

President Vladimir Putin spoke at a celebration in Red Square in Moscow yesterday. Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times

Putin turned to Ukraine after election

A day after he was declared victor in Russia’s rubber-stamp presidential election, Vladimir Putin used a celebration yesterday to signal that the war against Ukraine would continue to dominate his rule — and that his fight to add territory to Russia wasn’t over.

Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty Hardcover – 2008年 2月 5日

作者 Julie Nelson Davis (Author)

Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty

One of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") in late-eighteenth-century Japan, Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?–1806) was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. In images showing courtesans, geisha, housewives, and others, Utamaro made the practice of distinguishing social types into a connoisseurial art. In 1804, at the height of his success, Utamaro, along with several colleagues, was manacled and put under house arrest for fifty days for making prints of the military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi enjoying the pleasures of the "floating world." The event put into stark relief the challenge that popular representation posed to political authority and, according to some sources, may have precipitated Utamaro’s sudden decline.

In this book Julie Nelson Davis makes a close study of selected print sets, and by drawing on a wide range of period sources reinterprets Utamaro in the context of his times. Reconstructing the place of the ukiyo-e artist within the world of the commercial print market, she demonstrates how Utamaro’s images participated in the economies of entertainment and desire in the city of Edo (modern-day Tokyo).

Offering a new approach to issues of the status of the artist and the construction of identity, gender, sexuality, and celebrity in the Edo period, Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty is a significant contribution to the field and a key work for readers interested in Japanese art and culture.

China’s Military Spectacle Is Narrowing Its Options for Winning Over Taiwan

The military exercises were designed to deter Taiwan from moving further from Beijing, but they also indicated how few policy carrots China has.

See maps showing just how close Chinese military aircraft and drones are flying to Taiwan.

Caroline Kennedy visited Guadalcanal on the anniversary of a World War II battle amid another tense moment in the region.

Despite Focus on Spectacle, Russia Hints Spy Case Won't Disrupt U.S. Ties
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and STEVEN LEE MYERS
Russia summoned the American ambassador, Michael A. McFaul, to discuss the arrest of a man it said was a C.I.A. officer, but officials suggested they were ready to move on.



Why Hagel Was Picked
By DAVID BROOKS
As our budget braces for Medicare's tyranny, we just need a good overseer to manage the inevitable military decline.
How to Make a Spectacle of Yourself in Frames With No Glass in Them

Most people wear glasses to see. Hong Kong's hip young crowd wears them to be seen.

Where did the world's top business leaders get their supply of rose-tinted spectacles? A whopping 96% of them are either very or reasonably confident in the outlook for their companies over the next 24 months, according to a survey of 1,000 company chiefs world-wide carried out by lawyers Allen & Overy. That seems to run counter to other signs companies are hoarding cash amid a period of global economic turbulence, after the U.S.'s debt downgrade and the euro-zone crisis.

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An Indian woman died after she was attacked by a highly venomous Indian spectacled cobra. The judge found her death was caused by the bite -- but the real killer was her husband. And it wasn't the first time he'd used a snake as a weapon.

Speculum 翻譯為反射鏡 (p.21) 可考慮:"知識寶鑒"

(SPEK-yoo-luhm)

noun
1. A mirror used as a reflector in an optical instrument, such as a telescope.
2. Speculum metal: any of various alloys of copper and tin used in making mirrors.
3. An instrument for holding open a body cavity for medical examination.
4. A bright patch of color on the wings of certain birds, for example ducks.

Etymology
From Latin speculum (mirror), from specere (to look at), ultimately from the Indo-European root spek- (to observe) which is also the root of such words as suspect, spectrum, bishop (literally, overseer), espionage, despise, telescope, and spectacles
Usage
"The beautiful green speculum on the wings is common to both sexes." — Charles Darwin; Descent Of Man; 1871.

[名]（複 -la 〔-l〕, 〜s）

1 （磨いた金属製の）鏡, 反射鏡.

2 《外科》（検）鏡, スペキュラ.

3 《鳥》（カモの）翼鏡(きょう).


spectacle
(spĕk'tə-kəl)
n.

1. 1. Something that can be seen or viewed, especially something of a remarkable or impressive nature.
   2. A public performance or display, especially one on a large or lavish scale.
   3. A regrettable public display, as of bad behavior: drank too much and made a spectacle of himself.
2. spectacles
   1. A pair of eyeglasses.
   2. Something resembling eyeglasses in shape or suggesting them in function.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin spectāculum, from spectāre, to watch, frequentative of specere, to look at.]

spectacle

Pronunciation: /ˈspɛktək(ə)l/

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Definition of spectacle

noun

• a visually striking performance or display:the acrobatic feats make a good spectacle [mass noun]:the show is pure spectacle
• an event or scene regarded in terms of its visual impact:the spectacle of a city’s mass grief

Phrases

make a spectacle of oneself

draw attention to oneself by behaving in a ridiculous way in public: she was making a spectacle of herself with her childish outburst

音節spec • ta • cle
発音spéktəkl
大学入試レベル
[名]1CU（大掛かりな）見せ物，ショー，スペクタクル
2C（目を見張る）壮観，圧巻，見もの，（印象的な）眺め；〔単数形で〕哀れな光景，惨状
The sunset was quite a spectacle.
その夕焼けは実に壮観だった
3〔～s〕((形式・やや古))めがね（◆glasses のほうがふつう）
a pair of spectacles
めがね１つ
spectacleの慣用句・イディオムmake a spectacle of oneself人前で恥をさらす，失態を演じる語源［原義は「見るに値するもの」］
spectacleの派生語spectacleless 形