Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ironically, as Man learns more and more he seems to be able to fit his knowledge into less and less space. Current computers that contain the sum total of human knowledge are no bigger than a man's thumb, and are shrinking every day. Soon the devices for storing knowledge will be far too small to read from, and the great advances of civilization will be lost...
Miraculously, this veritable carnival manages to fit into the confines of the Quincy House Cage, a storage cubicle in the bowels of New Quincy. The actors use the space's claustrophobic confines to their advantage, colliding with each other as the slapstick humor requires...
...other hand, Boyd is referring to the conservative students gaining numbers on college campuses around the nation, he again evaluates the nature of this trend poorly. While most "conservative" students favor stronger national defense and less government interference in the economy, the overwhelming majority fit the label of "liberal" on social issues such as racial injustice...
...group of caricatures expound upon their social problems--but somewhere outside, an escaped criminal lurks. The players include a dimwitted blonde (Susan Kelly), a melodramatic maiden (Meg Schellenberg) and a gruff crippled veteran (Wise) who play cards endlessly. Into the scene comes a stranger (Goldfarb) who seems to fit the description of the fugitive. Who is he, and what will happen...
...ambition for his work to be placed in the line of two other great photo essays on the national mood: Walker Evans' American Photographs (1938) and Robert Frank's The Americans (1958). More than either predecessor, however, Sternfeld's account depends on landscape and on the way Americans have fit themselves into...