Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agriculture: In the same address and in a detailed message to Congress presented later in the week, Nixon announced his intention to phase out farm subsidies over three years, to "keep the farmer on his land and the Government off" (see THE ESSAY...
Thus Roland Barthes's essay on "The New Citroen" and the magic of its attraction, in Mythologies. A smooth, silent, seamless object, the modern automobile speaks the myth of a nature which is miraculous and benign. No longer does the automobile express mere speed, but speed with natural grace. Its surface and shape defy the sense of touch, make it seem already in motion, and imply a nature which is orderly and self-coherent. It is like a goddess who brings the order of heaven down to earth--and prostitutes herself to every petit-bourgeois who can afford the monthly...
...China, 1911-1945. Her authority as a pre-communist China expert lend weight to her insight into the tenacious Chinese riddle and she agreed to record her observations and impressions for the Associated Press and Harper's magazine. Notes From China consists of these and another previously published essay, the speculative "It Mao Had Come to Washington...
...photo sequence involves putting together two or more prints into a whole which exhibits some sort of progression. It is often a narrative progression, but the parts may also be linked by development in form or subject matter. Although bordering on the usually journalistic photo essay, the sequence is such a simple idea that it is amazing that only within the past few years has it begun to be explored and realized...
...sort of spangled mascot of Middle America. There is plentiful material here for social satire, the sort of thing the National Film Board of Canada did so nicely in their lacerating documentary on Paul Anka, Lonely Boy. Elvis might also have made a subject for a diverting visual essay on the sociology of pop. The filmmakers, who are responsible for the easygoing Joe Cocker documentary Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1971), attempt none of this. Instead they settle for compiling an obsequious family album...