Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them in primaries, winning over delegates. That takes time. For the voter, sizing up the candidates also takes time: figuring out how they think and decide, their intelligence, temperament, imagination." At the same time, notes Ajemian, "because public life is so battering these days, a candidate's psychological armor has to be very thick. As a result, political image making has reached new levels of skill and manipulation, emphasizing the candidates' strengths and covering their weaknesses. The task is to identify both the candidate and the real person. We can't learn too much about future Presidents...
...protecting mobility. Its 25-mm gun is not "highly inaccurate" but exceeds rigorous Army standards in all tests to date. The sticker price is not $1.94 million but $1.1 million, and the M113 costs $180,000, not $80,000. What's more, the vehicle's aluminum armor does not vaporize, incinerate or form a fireball. The armor is not "twice as thick" as the M113's-it measures 1 in., in contrast to 1¾ in. for the M113. Antitank rockets can penetrate steel and aluminum, but aluminum has no additional casualty-producing effect...
...Dead Soldier by an unknown Neapolitan hand (all attributions having failed so far), which inspired Manet's Dead Toreador. The painting is a link between Caravaggio's shadow-theater and, through Salvator Rosa, the world of 19th century romanticism. It shows a young man in half-armor lying stiff and composed on the floor of a cave (some mountain charnel-house, perhaps) surrounded by rainy twilight and the glimmer of bones, with a curl of smoke still issuing from an extinguished votive lamp. A vanitas? A more personal lamentation? Impossible to say; yet there is more real feeling...
...Soviets developed the T-80 tank, which is a modified T-72 with additional side armor. Since then, 1,900 of these tanks have rolled off Soviet assembly lines...
...vest was confiscated at the airport. But, Reed recalls, the soldiers used armor-piercing shells anyway. He laughs boldly when he recalls this--something which suggests the lack of emphasis he puts on his own welfare and safety when capturing often devastating human adversity. Through his own modesty and even more through his pictures, he seems determined to promote slices of life otherwise scorned or ignored...