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Word: darknesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things, to see them more clearly." The first picture he took that he thinks of as "fully visualized" as a photograph was in 1927: a view of Half Dome from the west ridge, which he caused "to look how it feels?a huge, monumental thing" by means of a dark red filter. "Visualization"?deciding in advance how a photo will look, rather than clicking away in the hope of a fortunate accident?is the essence of Adams' work. It is the difference between approaching a trout with a dry fly and dynamiting the brook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Yosemite | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...concern that the U.S. was reaching out to try to bring the P.L.O. into the Middle East peace process, a prospect that is anathema to Jerusalem. Said Strauss on the plane to the Middle East: "The Young affair ... reinforces the unfounded suspicions that the U.S. is dealing in the dark with the P.L.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fall of Andy Young | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...folds of calcified gauze, their skin roughened with residual abstract-expressionist drips and clots. It hardly matters that the stooped Gerontion in Segal's Hot Dog Stand, 1978, is a cast of the sprightly museum director Martin Friedman; what does count is the peculiar tension between his dark shape and the bright white figure of the waitress, under the glare of the lit mock-Mondrian ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Invasion of the Plaster People | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Lamont gives us what his publishers call "a firsthand report on college life today." Feeling around with his First Hand, Lamont discovered that there was a "dark side" to college life, that people didn't just row to Ivy Championships--they had problems, suffered from career pressures, sexual pressures. Just like anyone else. Eureka! Aflush with the joy of discovery, Lamont set his wisdom machine to work and came up with a program involving the end of grade inflation (a grade recession?), the fostering of alternate career routes, the institution of single-sex dorms, God-Knows-what-else...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Foreign Correspondent | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...sneezes through the dope smoke. The man opens the door; expanding clouds of pot smoke tumble out into the hallway two doors down from the senior tutor's apartment. The man enters the party. A panorama of naked wolves raise their hungry and wondrous eyes to him. It is dark and they are all seated on the floor, forming a circle and passing the pipe with an ambience of mysterious ritual. They toke and laugh and smile nervously as they apply their peripheral vision; some just roll back their eyes beneath closing eyelids and fall back on the floor with...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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