Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anonymous Sculpture. The Bechers' interest in photographing what most people prefer to forget has understandably raised many a questioning eyebrow. "The hardest thing when I first started was getting permission," says Bernhard. "They thought I was crazy." Descended from coal miners and steel workers, Becher came to his interest in industrial relics naturally. At first he pursued a painting career, soon found that the sights that captivated him were factories, machinery, construction sites...
...camerawork is subdued. Its strength is in its two key players. Each being determined, perhaps, to do his best acting before a peer, Burton and Harrison give firmly disciplined, finely delineated performances of undeviating honesty. Burton has rarely immersed himself in a part to the extent that one could forget he was Richard Burton, but he does it this time. Harrison has often seemed to be acting before a mirror rather than a camera. In Staircase he is acting before the broken mirror of a man's life, and he evolves a poignancy that is wonderfully real. At crucial...
...Remember when trying to "go to the moon" was a synonym for forget it? Well, we did it. We went to the moon. And your "middle America" was just the flagwaving contingent for 200 million people who were all, in their ways, flying just as high as NASA's Columbia, because maybe, just maybe, they all of a sudden realized that hunger and poverty and ghettos and education weren't all problems whose solutions were as distant as the moon...
...heart condition keeps him close to Tucson-the fact that a grand jury in New York wants him for questioning may also be persuasive-but he is not really at home. Newspapers ride him. Substantial gifts to the Roman Catholic Church and philanthropies have somehow failed to make people forget about his background...
...bank president. After studying business administration in college for three days, Reardon switched to music, "because those kids were much more fun. I tried to be a pianist," he recalls, "but my hands sweat when I'm nervous, and when your hands sweat as a pianist, forget it. It's like Niagara Falls." He also experimented with composition, but was swiftly urged by his teacher to take up singing instead...