Word: blemishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diane Arbus subjected her "freaks" to a glaring white light that revealed every pore and blemish. Her photographs are often cruel but not easily forgotten. Her approach is obviously not the only valid one--sympathy and affection are just as legitimate responses for the photographer to have to his subject as clinical detachment. But Dorfman fails to use her emotional response as a means to create a compelling image and in doing so, fails to fulfill one of the photographer's essential responsibilities...
...Jumbos will be no easy touch for the Crimson. Comparing scores against common opponents, Tufts mauled MIT 6-1, while Harvard could manage only a 1-0 victory over the Engineers. The Jumbos defeated Wesleyan, while the Crimson's only blemish on its 6-1-1 record was a loss to Wesleyan. Also, Tufts played a highly-touted Amherst team to a 1-1 deadlock last week. The Lord Jeffs had previously lost to second-ranked Brown by a slight 1-0 margin...
...cops call "the Big Rock" won two Bronze Stars as an infantry sergeant in the Pacific. As a policeman, Rochford once walked into a house in pursuit of a sniper who had killed two cops-and he walked out with his man. But his record is not without blemish: he was overall commander during the brutal police clashes with demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic Convention, when his men got out of control. Rochford was also in charge of the police who fired a volley of shots-wounding one youth-in a riot at a 1970 rock festival in Grant Park...
...only blemish to cross the line among the top ten was the Bruin's top man, Brian Thomas. He managed to finish sixth. Other than that, it was all Harvard...
...group members alike try to help each member analyze, and change, his "life script" -the blueprint that, according to T.A., a child unconsciously draws up to shape his whole life. Bad scripts may include self-defeating "games" such as "Kick Me," a gambit of the self-pitying, and "Blemish," the ploy of people who compensate for inferiority feelings by pointing out the failings of others...