Word: captioner
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...Nobody knows I’m lesbian,” reads the caption beside a picture of Mona Lisa...
...misspelled the names of people of color, as well as being generally deficient in its coverage of minority events and issues. The outburst was sparked by a particularly offensive reference in the first paper of the year—the Daily’s Arts section ran the caption “Buckwheat Sings” under a picture of Justin Guarini, the American Idol finalist, who is of mixed race...
...Daily has inexplicably declined to apologize for the “buckwheat” caption, which quite understandably angered students of color on campus; it will be difficult to make any progress until the paper publicly acknowledges that mistake. But even so, the boycott will only hurt the Daily’s coverage of minorities, and by extension the minority communities themselves...
...photograph below of a fierce-looking group of men cradling antique machine guns comes from an old album in my home. It dates from about 1930, and its caption reads, "Sheik Mahmoud of Kurdistan. Surrendered to Political Officer Victor Holt VC accompanied by FO M.O." "Sheik Mahmoud" was Mahmoud Barzanji, chieftain of a famous Kurdish clan, who led a series of revolts against British rule in Iraq after World War I. "FO M.O." was Royal Air Force Flight Officer Max Oxford, my late father...
...says Anderson. Anderson's own closet-size cubicle inside the small brick customs office is a spartan place purged of distractions except for photos of Linda and their daughter, 23, and son, 19. Taped to the wall is a tattered cartoon of a happy dragon picking his teeth. The caption reads: "No matter how hard you work, no matter how right you are--sometimes the dragon wins." The cartoon has been on Anderson's wall for 15 years. But since 9/11, he won't believe its message. The dragon can't win, not even once...