Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involve the framing of that window and the timing of the camera's shutter which permanently freezes the window's view. For the snapshot photographer, framing involves an attempt to capture a scene's ambience, rather than an attempt at strong composition. None of the photographers in The Snapshot crop their images; incongruities are as important as congruities. In one of the essays which stud the book, Tod Papageorge writes of his efforts to capture "superficialities." He wants to reveal truths not by grabbing moments of surpassing profundity, but through moments representative of the experience of everyday life. When this...
McElroy also warned of possible military uses of these gases. He said that a country "could deliberately seed the atmosphere over a particular area" to "destroy a critical food crop...
McElroy said the increased agricultural use of methyl bromide for crop fumigation also depletes the ozone layer...
...desperation, the military declared outright war and drew up an extermination program. Crop-dusting airplanes and helicopters would douse the roosting birds with Tergitol S-9, a strong, biodegradable detergent that washes the oil from the birds' feathers. Without the oil, which helps to insulate them, the blackbirds would begin to die from the cold -if the temperature remained below about...
DuBois, who urged black students to study Arabic, warned of "a trend to anti-intellectualism that tends to crop up among our people...