Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the bitter years in the U.S., during which Kertesz felt forgotten, he continued to photograph. Some of the most pungent images in the Chicago show were made in New York during the 1940s and '50s. Partial to the human scale of Paris, Kertesz had to adjust his eye to the magnitude and visual disarray of America. In the process, he saw things that a more acclimatized vision might miss. In one picture from 1947, the immense web work of the Queensboro Bridge is played against the finer lattice of the superstructure around some storage tanks. Then diagonal ranks...
...this decision. I hope you can understand." His ringleader understood only too well, predicting in a note to his Soviet contact that the unhappy former spy would soon rejoin them, and explaining: "He has become accustomed to the big-spender life-style and I don't believe he will adjust to living off his wife's income...
...parliamentary opposition. We are doing our best to see that our massive majority in Parliament does not make the opposition feel oppressed. We are keeping it fully informed on every major decision. If it raises relevant points, we are willing to adjust our position...
Every other pitcher has some slight flaw in his motion, some minute deviation that helps him adjust to his own physical limitations. Some of these adjustments are almost imperceptible, some are grotesque distortions...
...last two pitchers the Crimson has faced have been the fastest it has seen all year, and if it is to continue having success the squad will have to adjust...