Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scramble for a way to distinguish themselves from the mobs of snapshooters. Their response was pictorialism, an international style of soft focus, poetic yearnings and darkroom tricks that were beyond the abilities of the untrained. During the pictorialist phase of their careers, Alvin Langdon Coburn in England and Edward Steichen in the U.S. turned away from mere realism toward a metaphysical art, one of broad hazy forms that hinted at an elusive realm of ideas and spirit...
When the first attempt to secure Poppe's entrance into the United States failed, Parsons asked Edward Mason, a member of the Russian Research Center's executive committee, to seek help from State Department official George F. Kennan...
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
...fiery social democrat Michael Manley last week. He said it with a nice touch of humility, but with forgivable satisfaction as well, for he had just been given exactly that. His People's National Party (PNP), which he led as Prime Minister from 1972 to 1980, thrashed Prime Minister Edward Seaga's Jamaica Labor Party by winning at least 44 of 60 parliamentary seats. In a remarkable show of conciliation, the charismatic and often feisty Manley called on party members to "take this victory with dignity and humility," and paid tribute to the nation's security forces for maintaining relative...
...million deficit. In trying to close the gap, Ball increasingly favored small casts and minimal sets, leading to productions that seemed skimpy in the 1,396-seat Geary Theater, an ornately paneled and columned 1910 landmark where A.C.T. has played for more than two decades. Says Edward Hastings, a director since A.C.T.'s inception and Ball's successor as artistic director: "Bill's obsession with the deficit took over from artistic considerations, and that was not healthy for the company, although there were some wonderful productions right...