Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curious." Koba said, staring at Molokov...
...curious that my friend Henri Cartier-Bresson should assail my friend Ansel Adams [Sept. 3] for "doing pictures of rocks" instead of being socially committed while "the world is falling to pieces." Except for a couple of chilling end-of-the-war shots of Nazi collaborators being interrogated in his homeland, and poignant images of quilted Chinese peasants playing mah-jongg during the fall/liberation of Nationalist Peking, not a single Cartier-Bresson photograph comes to mind about any of the world's miseries covered by other, often less gifted but more involved photographers...
...pilot and an associate. The Mexican information agency announced last spring that 900 investigations into public corruption had begun. So far none of those investigations has produced even an indictment, much less a conviction. Charges Hero Rodriguez Toro, editor of the weekly newsmagazine Proceso: "We have a curious method of punishing the offense, a method which operates in frank favor of the delinquent. When a large-scale offender is apprehended and charged, it is demanded that he return the stolen money. Once this is done, the delinquent suddenly recovers his lost
...part of the scenery. That's the way it appeared last Monday night before Brown's speech--the standard crowd of 20 protesters from the Spartacus Youth League and the RCP shouting slogans or engaged in heated debate with self-appointed defenders of the free world, etc., and the curious watching and listening. That much was expected--"I'm here to keep an eye on the activities outside," Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said with a tolerant smile. But the demonstrators were supposed to stay outside...
...This curious antiphonal relationship between the two men had the consequence of enhancing my position, but my own role was clearly a result of that relationship and not the cause of it. From the beginning Nixon was determined to dominate the most important negotiations. Throughout his term, when a state visitor was received in the Oval Office by Nixon for a lengthy discussion, I was the only other American present...