Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense in which Sontag seems to resent photography because it is a non-verbal, non-intellectual process. She argues repeatedly that the photographic experience is a surface experience that cannot convey real knowledge, cannot convey real understanding. She objects to the way in which "the photographer's approach. . . is unsystematic, indeed anti-systematic." And well it may be, but systematic thinking and intellectual rigor is but one form of truth. Photography--with its episodic glimpses, its focus on a single image in a world that is blurred and rushing past--presents another form of truth, different from rational truth...
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...bombing struck dread into the North Vietnamese. They feared the fighter-bombers, but most of all they feared the B-52s. Reason: the B-52s fly so high-above 40,000 ft.-that their approach is unknown to those on the ground until the huge bombs fall on them. According to the U.S. estimates, 15,000 enemy troops were killed or injured by U.S. bombardment. The bombs obliterated trenches, leveled hills, scorched whole acres of land. They even wiped out the North Vietnamese headquarters bunker, killing all those inside. The bombing touched off 5,000 secondary explosions and more than...
This 99-minute bash was filmed with a great effort at spontaneity; Sellers and Producer-Director Blake Edwards worked with a minimal script and checked each scene with instant playback on video tape. The result of the ad-lib approach, however, is not a swinging riot of originals but a parade of old reliables. A drunken waiter weaves around with his tray of drinks, the toy arrow with a suction cup on its end finds its way to someone's' forehead as inevitably as the foaming detergent finds its way into the swimming pool...
...Report was indeed a political necessity, said James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and co-author of City Politics, it should have taken a very different approach...