Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flowers reaching their boats inspired ancient Romans and Greeks to call them "the Fortunate Islands." The refreshingly mild and breezy climate was praised by more modern travelers as "perpetual spring." But early natives of the Canary Islands,*70 miles off the northwest coast of Africa, knew better. They chose the name Pico de Teide (Peak of Hell) for the 12,200-ft. volcanic mountain that looms broodingly over Tenerife, largest of the seven major islands: the natives thought the devil lurked inside it. Last week Tenerife was about as hellish as any place on earth...
...York City Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Holmes Norton to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, though Meany & Co. had expressed a clear preference for Ronald Brown, head of the Washington office of the Urban League. Last week Carter belatedly did throw labor about its only sop on appointments: he chose John Fanning, a union favorite, to be chairman of the National Labor Relations Board...
...warned that the unilateral manner in which Gray had publicly announced the takeover might damage B & W's ability to do business. If so, said Zipf, "we shall hold you responsible for any such damage." But Zipf did say that the offer needs more study, and United blandly chose to thank him for replying so quickly-indicating that Gray intends to persist...
Assigned in February to do a photo story for the French edition of Vogue, a magazine he occasionally works for, Polanski chose for his model the 13-yearold daughter of a San Fernando Valley woman he had known for a year. Although he reportedly assured the mother that the girl would be fully clothed, during their first photo session he had her strip to the waist. Two and a half weeks later Polanski picked the girl up in his leased Mercedes for a second shooting session, one which ended up at the Mulholland Drive home of Polanski's good...
...Island represented the opening American act of one of the most remarkable dramas in all of history: the conversion of agricultural laborers, rural homemakers and traditional craftsmen into urban industrial workers." Hine, unlike other American photographers, perceived this and made it the lifelong theme of his work. The subject chose him. It presented Hine with a sense of historical duty, as witness to a unique moment in human transactions, that propelled his work for the next three decades. It transcended formalism without damaging his aesthetic sense. Any event is an infinitely divisible string of moments, and Hine had an uncanny...