Word: blockings
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What made it all the more challenging was that Eggleston worked in color. In 1976 serious photographers were expected to work in black and white, and most museums assumed that camera art could be made only within the palette you might find in a cinder block. And then there were Eggleston's pictures of places where no one had ever bothered to point a camera before, like the green tiled interior of an empty shower stall or the strangely mesmerizing blackness of an open kitchen oven. In 1961 photographer Robert Frank said, "You can photograph anything now." But it took...
Apple specializes in mini-malist design that simply works better. Each MacBook, for instance, is carved out of a single block of aluminum, and this unibody construction creates a stronger, lighter chassis that looks like a work...
...find a porcine connection in his visit with Don Manuel Fraga Iribarne, an eminent Spanish politician. I understand that Fraga is the most famous Galician alive, but if he has nothing to do with the Celtic pig, he should have been left on this work’s cutting block. That said, his pork-free adventures could have worked if he were an enchanting tour guide, but Barlow himself is hard to stomach. His attempts at replicating the misanthropic humor that works so well for fellow food writer Bill Buford (“Heat”) completely miss the mark...
...running game averaging only 47.7 yards per game, this will surely be difficult to accomplish against a veteran Harvard defensive front seven. “The whole thing comes down to execution. We expect [our younger players] to step up, whether it’s making that critical block or good throw,” Teevens said. “We’ve been close enough to make some things happen, but unfortunately allowed some plays. We need to make more plays.”Meanwhile, the Crimson is coming off a highly contested 24-20 victory against Princeton...
...senior. The ball came loose and was recovered by Princeton at the Harvard 20. Yes, a flag flew, as it should when there is interference on the kick return. But as I feared in the back of my mind, the flag wasn’t for interference. Illegal block in the back, they called—against Harvard.As the other writers and I tried to understand the call, we could see Murphy livid on the field and the coaches in the coaching box next to us distressed. Were we going to see a repeat of two years ago where...