Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promised that as East bloc countries move away from one-party Communist rule, the Soviet Union will observe strict principles of non-intervention and "absolute freedom of choice...
When Marlene Dietrich arrived at London's Heathrow Airport one day a few years ago, she was in no mood to meet the group of photographers waiting for her. "Go away!" she shouted. "You are all morons. Why don't you get a proper job?" And they laughed and made her picture and loved her, as they have through the years, for she always gladdened their hearts -- and their eyes. They didn't mind what she said, because they knew they had a proper...
...have seen them on the margins of history: cameras slung over their shoulders, vests bulging with film canisters, heads bent forward as they focus in and fire away. Since the invention of photography 150 years ago, photojournalists have been pointing their lenses at battles, fires, heroes, villains and the world at large. This Special Collector's Edition of TIME celebrates the most memorable images of that visual heritage...
Think of time as a small stream scattered with flowers and flowing relentlessly past. Pick up a petal. Examine it, savor it, press it away between the pages of private memory. That's photography. Its birth was announced in 1839, when the French Academy made public Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's new process for fixing images on a metal plate and, a few months later, Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot broke the news of his own separate process. Since then, photography has been the best way of making time stand still...
...that is what photography is up to, then the onion of the world is being peeled away, layer by layer -- lenses like black holes gobbling up life's emanations. Mere images proliferate, while history pares down to a phosphorescence of itself...