Word: buds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Imogen Cunningham has been a very good photographer for a very long time. She is a portraitist. In the mid-1920s, influenced by the photographs of Paul Strand, she did a series of intense studies of plants, and even these are portraits. She bears down on a single bud or stalk and reveals the uniqueness of a living thing in the same way she concentrates on a human face and reveals its essentials. For her, Ansel Adams glares down from the top of a mountain, tripod slung over his shoulder, finger jabbing at the air in the style...
...influence to land lucrative defense contracts or military installations for Grand Rapids. He concentrated instead on personal service. European relatives of Grand Rapids citizens had little trouble migrating to America. Jerry Ford smoothed the way for them. In a biography of Ford that has just been published, Author Bud Vestal quotes a remark that has made the rounds in Michigan: "Every Dutch immigrant since Ford went to Congress just happens to have been an underground Resistance hero during World War II. And every Latvian who wants to come to Grand Rapids was the leading physician in Riga before the Russians...
...would say another thing--Bud Brown [unintelligible] did you read it? [Unintelligible] candidates. I don't know who all you discussed that with. Maybe it's not been handled at a high enough level. Who did you discuss that with? [Unintelligible...
...Baron "Bud" Asher is one of the mythic figures of my home town. Since he arrived in the mid-fifties after a career as a 5 ft. 9 in. scrub quarterback who ran the opposition's plays against Wally Butts' University of Georgia varsity, Asher has never stopped running. Asher makes Sammy Glick look like a turtle with shinsplints...
...Fears (NFL) was top man for the Southern California Suns. Jack Pardee (NFL) would lead the Washington Ambassadors. Further down on the list of twelve included three others from the NFL, two from the Canadian Football League, and one each from the college ranks. But after the name of Bud Asher, new coach of the Jacksonville Sharks, were these electric, unapologized-for credentials: NEW SMYRNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL...