Word: essays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent four weeks in Moscow serving as director of photography for the book project: "These are extraordinary photos of ordinary events." Assistant Art Director Arthur Hochstein designed the special section, while Staff Writer Howard Chua-Eoan provided the captions. Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt, who contributed the accompanying ten-page essay, spent a month in the Soviet Union on the project. Contrasting his assignment with that of the photographers, he notes, "They did a day in the life. I tried to do the life." The result is a unique portrait of that giant, paradoxical, intensely human land...
...impression conveyed by these images is occasionally a touch too sunny, the Essay that follows offers different kinds of lights. Where the photographers froze a day on film, Time Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt roamed the Soviet Union for a month. He provides a portrait of a nation reaching for midday while its heart remains in shadow...
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...views and exaggerated statistics in Hite's report may rest with her methodology. The author went about gathering her data by mailing 100,000 questionnaires to a variety of women's groups in 43 states, ranging from feminist organizations to church groups to garden clubs. Her questionnaire listed 127 essay questions on subjects ranging from dating to hobbies to parents, many of them rather abstract. (Admits Hite: "You can quantify orgasms, but you can't quantify love.") After receiving the first 1,500 responses, Hite says, she made a demographic comparison between her respondents and the general U.S. female population...
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