Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invasion from Waco. The strength of the invaders was fully documented: Baylor University's football team, made up of a jumbo line and backfield of brilliant performers, was unbeaten in six games, rated No. 3 in the whole U.S. Baptist Baylor, the experts agreed, had its finest chance in 29 years to win the championship of the Southwest Conference. Texas U. buffs were not dismayed. They passed the word: "Get out the red candles...
Unlike its predecessors, this new grand tour is never moralistic, never theological, always entertaining. The sins, presented as vignettes, are made by six groups of the finest cinema talent of France and Italy, and the framework for their presentation is a carnival doll representing each. A glib barker, Gerard Philippe, goads the crowds to knock each doll off its pedestal, and as each falls, the scene fades into the filmlets...
...sees something memorable in the world about him, and seizes it from the stream of time into a flat and shadowy sort of permanence. His picture is not so much created as caught. Photography can and often does produce great things without the intercession of genius (many of the finest World War II pictures were made without human guidance, by automatically triggered cameras...
...Wagnerian. In 1882 a young man from Hoboken named Alfred Stieglitz was in Germany studying engineering. In a Berlin shop window he saw a camera, and without hesitation went in and bought it. "Fate," he said later, "took me to that shop." He came to produce the finest body of photos yet made by a single artist. He was an accomplished technician, yet he kept insisting that technique was of minor importance. What mattered to him was art-the creation of "equivalents" for reality...
...with his work in the early 1930s for Vanity Fair, today is Curator of Photography at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Weston pioneered sharp-focus photography of places and things, and started a naturalistic school, of which the chief disciple is Ansel Adams, regarded as perhaps the finest landscape photographer today...