Word: forsook
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March 2 was not just a loss, out a massive, mindblowing defeat for Birch Bayh, for Massachusetts liberals, for the voters who did not know better, for the nonvoters who forsook their chance, and for the poor people of Brazil. Especially for the poor people of Brazil and for all of their American counterparts in Massachusetts and across the nation...
...ping, Sweden, city fathers warned parents not to let children play on park slides. Reason: too many badly burned bottoms. Ice cream sales climbed, and Britons lapped up Dalek Death Rays Ice Lollies (ices on a stick) at the rate of 2 million a week. They also forsook their tepid brews by the million, sending the sale of chilled Continental-style beer up by 60%. Hot pants were everywhere to be seen on Rome streets, as were nude bathers on Copenhagen beaches, and topless nymphs in Stockholm parks. Though the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace sweltered stoically in their bearskins...
...suit their own needs. This to him violated the subject's integrity: he felt that the only control the photographer should have--the only way of imposing himself on his subject--was camera angle and distance, and that even these should be used with care. But even these he forsook when in brief intervals he took to the Chicago streets with a Leica or rode the subways with the lens of his camera peeking out between two buttons of his coat. In Chicago he took an almost fixed stance, photographing people on one street corner. On the subways...
...ignored. Her style evolved from a grainy picture surface to one of extreme clarity. It dispells any aura of mystery surrounding her subjects that the human eye with its weakness and sympathies allowed to build up. The struggles and anguish these people suffered awed Arbus but she never forsook the objectivity of the lens. She maintained her own perhaps too rigid standards of dealing with reality...
Gordon played Crimson squash for three years, and was number three racquetman last year. This year he forsook squash, and instead ran in last month's Boston Marathon...