Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difference. Gary Winogrand once said "Photography is the illusion of a literal description of the way the camera saw a piece of time and space." Confronted with such hallucinatory visions of the supposedly familiar, a viewer hearing that phrase might catch hold of "illusion" or "literal description" to explain these photographs. Their creators grasped "camera...
Some admit to multiplying quality by the quantity of quality, however, and that could explain why Bob Dylan is getting divorced in Malibu instead of strumming some tunes at the Equinox Street Performers Music Fair this Sunday. But its a three-ring-circus of a fair in three different halls of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, and if that isn't his idea of atmosphere...
Spokesmen for Somoza insist that the bishops' charges are grossly exaggerated. Many campesinos, they explain, have not been killed, but simply fled their homes to avoid the fighting. U.S. Ambassador James Theberge, however, takes the reports seriously: "We have reason to believe that some of the allegations of human rights violations are accurate, and our concern has been made clear to the Nicaraguan government on various occasions in the past year...
Beyond theory, MTM has been good because the writing has usually come in lovely light bursts of very funny lines. Sue Ann, played with genius by Betty White, flashes a domestic smile as if about to explain how to remove coffee stains; she eyes a man in the room and exclaims with sweet enthusiasm, "What a hunk!" Mary's humor was usually reactive; the funny one-liners revolved around her. Often they concerned her war against her own Wasp primness and repression. "I always wash my hair before I go to the hair dresser," she once confessed disconsolately. "When...
...protest got nowhere: a resolution calling on Stevens to explain its labor policies drew only 6% of the shareholder votes. But the demonstration was only part of the union attack. In mid-1976 ACTWU announced a nationwide boycott of Stevens products and in the past few months it has intensified the effort. With the support of church, student and civil rights groups, it hopes to call on community leaders and get them to urge retailers to take Stevens goods off the shelves. This is the same tactic, and the same coalition, that broke the impassioned resistance to unionism of Farah...