Word: codding
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...contains intense emotional value. The photographs were shot with a largeformat view camera whose slow exposures and sizable 8x10 inch prints produce an almost magical sharpness and delicacy of color. All the photographs in the museum, and the majority in the gallery, were taken over two summers at Cape Cod. There, after many years' experience photographing in black and white on the streets of New York, Meyerowitz was struck by a beauty that, as he recently recounted in a museum symposium, "liberated me from the incident." He was enamored by the purity of the light, "a light that cast...
...difference is willful. Canaday's complaint, which is over 100 years old, can scarcely concern Meyerowitz. The Cape Cod photographs were motivated by an essentially romantic, lyrical, personal desire not merely to record experience but to describe it. In photographing an object or event, he is loyal primarily to his feelings, to his refined and vivid emotional impression of whatever his eye lands on; and, to somewhat warp and make literal a phrase of Wordsworth's, he throws over the photographed thing "a certain coloring of imagination." The hot oranges, yellow and pinks of pillows filling a couch struck...
...world of deep sea fishing. As Gene Purdy remarks, "I felt bad having to pull those fish out of the water." But Purdy's heart soon warmed to the task at hand and by the end of the tourney he landed an 11-lb. Gadus Callarias, known as cod to the laymen, the third largest catch in the tournament...
Brown knew where he was headed, at least in one sport. He went 4-0 for the rejuvenated baseball squad sophomore year and spent his summer as the number one pitcher in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League. A pro baseball career was in his plans, one that didn't necessarily include another gridiron learning experience...
...khaki slacks, revealing a thick mat of hair, now graying. The huge house echoed with memories, but now it was empty and still. Kennedy's wife had been living in Boston, away from the family for more than a year, and his children were at Cape Cod for the summer...