Word: commander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is one area in which admiration for Adams' work is universal: his command of tonal range on his prints. "The negative is the score," he says, "the print is the performance." Ad ams can do things with a print that are the despair of professional developers: his ability to bring out every nuance of tone within a shadow, gray overlapping black, so that each detail of form is both implicit and simultaneously present, is astounding. The difference of quality be tween an Adams print and one made by a studio from an Adams negative is just as evident...
...drama began Friday afternoon in the unlikely setting of an auto-towing-company yard in a black district that stretches across south central Los Angeles. FBI agents, Los Angeles policemen and deputy sheriffs converged on the spot, which was turned into an impromptu central command and briefing post. They were joined by squads of newsmen who had picked up the same tip: the S.L.A. was hiding in the area...
...climbed Avital, one of three hills west of Quneitra, and looked across the flat plain that is Syria. It was easy to feel in the pit of your stomach why the hills mean so much to the Israelis. They command the entire plain. Suddenly, as if to confirm our musings, there were bursts of dirty smoke followed by bangs. The Syrian guns were at work, and the Israelis fired back. "It is an artillery war," explained an Israeli colonel...
...great deal more than Kennedy and Eisenhower, both of whom could muster choice words on occasion, and even more than Truman and Johnson, whose racy vocabularies were legendary. Truman's language, though earthy, had a funny, folksy flair that Nixon's lacks. As for Lyndon Johnson, his command of invective was a constant source of purple surprise. But unlike Nixon, he did not mechanically spew out obscenities; he used them pointedly to cap his stories. L.B.J. could make people chuckle with his inventive cussing and barnyard phrases, and those who were not afraid of him rather admired what...
...students were "spoiled brats." His legal articles on high finance prompted Joseph P. Kennedy to bring him to Washington, D.C., in 1934. He soon succeeded Kennedy as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Franklin Roosevelt. The professor turned bureaucrat quickly became a regular at F.D.R.'s "command performance" poker games. He also became the President's favorite martini mixer (chilled glasses with lemon rubbed on the rim, and just a taint of vermouth...