Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walker Evans' photographs speak of an uncompromising vision of America. His Coney Island photographs express a kind of perversity in our country perhaps best compared to the social commentary of Frank and Friedlander. Some of, the Friedlander photographs displayed show pictures of people on TV and the eerie glow they cast upon their surrounding environment. Humans are deliberately missing, yet they seem all the more present by their absence. Perhaps Frank's photographs represent the most powerful photographic view of America. The symbol of the American flag occurs repeatedly in his work; his photograph of the women and child...
...sensitivity in approaching his subject. Just as Evans' sequence of closeups of miners' faces bespeaks the unjustified nature of their existence, Robert Frank's photograph of wealthy office seekers with their tall, black silk hats captures the utmost fatuousness of political figures. They are given enough room to express and be themselves, whatever their environment...
...domesticated or laboratory animals, man has not had harmful and even lethal genes bred out of him. These genes remain in humans, many as recessives, suppressed by dominant normal genes. If humans could be cloned by Markert's method, these recessive genes could come to the fore and express themselves, causing deformities and genetic illnesses, even death...
...that did not sit well with the Mail's principal tabloid rival in Britain, the Express, which had dropped out of the bidding at $190,000. Express reporters claim they had learned that the yet unidentified father was driving three hours each way to visit his wife. So they staked out the hospital parking lot, jotted down license numbers of male motorists who looked as if they might be expectant fathers and traced them through Britain's motor licensing bureau. How? "By subterfuge, even bribery!" speculated an angry civil servant. The Express soon narrowed the search to Brown...
...headline OUR MIRACLE BABY. Yet Murdoch's Sun that day also identified the Browns and quoted John Brown extensively, under the label SUN EXCLUSIVE. The Mail tried next day to regain the initiative by printing the first "exclusive" photo of Lesley Brown-but the Sun and the Express both pictured her that day as well. To protect its fast depreciating investment, the Mail quickly stationed a guard outside Lesley Brown's room and persuaded Oldham Hospital officials to refer all inquiries about the birth to the Mail. When a TIME correspondent called the paper to confirm Lesley...