Word: flashbulbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made no effort to be beautiful and that sacrificed the esoteric for the immediate. Préfète Dufaut's childlike Harbor at Jacmel was as flat, bright and familiar as any postcard, and Wilson Bigaud's self-portrait behind bars had the harshness of a flashbulb photo. Even these, standouts though they were, lacked most of the qualities that critics associate with good painting. Yet, as Poet Rodman suggested in his book, the qualities they did possess were the ones most lacking in modern art and most essential to its future: "Harmony, simplicity, spontaneity...
...spot six of our men were odiously assassinated by the Nazis. If you did not know it, now you do. Take off your hat and observe one minute of silence." Clenching his teeth, Sacha complied. Notoriously fond of talking, he was silent for an entire minute. His captors took flashbulb pictures which turned up in the Lyon newspaper Le Progres. Humiliated but unharmed and untouched, he was then permitted to return to his hotel and leave town in the morning...
...time at all, three reporters and a couple of photographers clustered around the little tableau, and Gannon flipped the diminutive lady into his arms as a coincidental flashbulb recorded the scene for posterity...
...grip on himself. "A shave and a facial massage," said Lewis. Barber Martin, who liked to tell people during the coal strike that if he ever got hold of Lewis he would take the famed eyebrows right off, got out his razor. Then a photographer entered, set off a flashbulb. Lewis bounded out of the chair with a growl, grabbed the photographer's film-holder, smashed it, drove him away, sat down again. Barber Martin gave him a shave and a facial massage...
...That," he said, looking at the lipstick on his handkerchief, "is something which must be tactfully explained to my wife." Then he licked a flashbulb, stuck it in his speed gun, and banged off a picture of the happy couple...