Word: candids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stunningly candid and hard-hitting speech last June 19 before a closed meeting of some 40 Soviet writers, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev discussed his views of Soviet society and his plans to reform it. Last week the New York Times provided the most extensive English translation to date based on notes taken by one of the writers present. Excerpts...
Eisenstaedt's technique was adopted from the pioneering candid camera work of Erich Salomon. In the late 1920s, Salomon electrified photojournalism with his available-light pictures of European diplomats in unposed situations -- stuffed shirts in unbuttoned moments. Eisenstaedt applied Salomon's methods to less official surroundings, in ballrooms, at the opera, or among strollers at St. Moritz. His strengths were the chief strengths of photography generally: not the ceremonial but the serendipitous, not oratory but anecdote. He was the kind of photographer who could become so entranced by the sideline * doings at a royal wedding that he would forget...
...fact, the entire Reagan Administration is committed to a policy of systematic deception. There is no better illustration of this than Chief of Staff Donald Regan '40's candid comments in a recent New York Times interview. "Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follows a parade down Main Street cleaning up," he said. "We took Reykjavik and turned what was really a sour situation into something that turned out really well...I don't say we'll be able to do it [with Iran]. But here we go again, we're trying...
...David Durenberger, R-Minn., chairman ofthe committee, said the witnesses were providing a"very candid response to the questions and a lotof helpful information...
...cross-section of schools in each state. There they asked students to list the schools, besides their own, that they thought partied the most. Then the schools most often mentioned were examined for party atmosphere and students known to be very "socially active" at those schools were tracked down. Candid, anonymous remarks by these students were the basis for the final selections...