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...reticent about his hunger for glory. Like Douglas MacArthur, he wrote ringing letters about ambition to his mother. Resting in his igloo after the last polar trip, he contemplated elaborate designs for his mausoleum. But according to Matt Henson's recollections, Peary was sullen and evasive about their exact positions at the top of the world. He asserted his claim to the Pole only after returning to civilization and learning that the world was already crediting the achievement to Frederick A. Cook, a Brooklyn physician. The stakes were high for both men: the polar itch had become the obsession...
...Spanish Institute of Foreign Missions reported Sunday that one of its missionaries could pinpoint the exact spot in Mozambique where 400 villagers were allegedly slaughtered by Portuguese troops...
...explicit acknowledgment of the camera's presence, Arbus shunned the technique popularized by Henri Cartier Bresson called "the decisive moment." This technique implies an unobtrusive use of the camera to catch people at the exact instant of time when they reveal a significant characteristic. From the photographs which result, it is easy to distill general truths that treat people only in a simplistic relationship to the larger mass of humanity...
PETER BOGDANOVICH is a director who thinks on his feet. He translates his fiction onto film like it was embossed on slate, exact and crystal clear. As he understated in a recent interview, "I am rather precise, and there is not much room for improvisation once we agree on what the scene is." Each Bogdanovich shot is like an Andrew Wyeth painting, possessing more definition and harder edges than anything real...
...parallels are far from exact, but this scenario is roughly what we find in Measure for Measure, with which the American Shakespeare Theatre (the word 'Festival' has just been dropped from its name) has opened its 19th season. In choosing the play (not done here since 1956) long before the Watergate hearings, director Michael Kahn proved himself uncannily prophetic...