Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, in his second stage, he couldn't. Even while he was making serious hay as Nike's and Canon's poster boy--"Image Is Everything"--he was hangin' with Barbra Streisand (!), asking Las Vegas to name streets after him, scarfing doughnuts and sagging on court like a sprung net. He dropped to No. 25 in the world and looked to be one kaput wunderkind...
...film requires no threading, the cameras can be very compact. They take pictures in three sizes and replace negatives with a single contact sheet that displays thumbnail images of an entire roll at a glance. So I decided to put three brand-new models from Canon, Konica and Minolta to the test. My bar: they had to be sleek and light and come with a 2X zoom...
...loved the mid-roll-change option on Canon's Elph 2, which lets you swap partly used rolls in and out. I could save one roll for impromptu pics, then switch to a fresh one for parties or vacations. But the viewfinder was noticeably dull, actually discouraging me from taking shots. Minolta's silvery Vectis 2000 was the lightest of the trio and has a slick pull-open case. But it didn't seem so slick when I had to slap a piece of Scotch tape on the battery compartment to keep it from popping open. And the hatch marks...
Back in the day, I used to be quite the reader. It was a never-ending cycle of John Grisham novels and baseball books in high school. And I was enjoying the canon from my English class. Before that, in elementary school, I was the proud holder of a bajillion reading awards...
...rise above Blue Hill Bay, and the barn is still attached to it, Maine fashion, and down at the water's edge is the little boathouse where White wrote his children's stories Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, along with the many essays that have entered the canon of American literature: "Once More to the Lake," "Death of a Pig," "The Geese" and half a dozen others...