Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FOGG BILLS Walter Rosenblum as a "documentary photographer," and on the surface, this appears to be correct. "Documentary Photography" is a pretty well- characterized genre and the photographs in Rosenblum's retrospective run the gamut of the themes that documentarians have traditionally found to be significant--poor peasants in Haiti, Spain and Mexico, slums in New York City, war, exuberant life in European parks...
Beside me I noticed the show's yellow program, postcard listing about thirty categories such as "phobias," "embarrassing situations," "old wives tales," "famous performers," and "vices and virtues." From these the audience makes their "propositions" which the actors devise into a series of songs and skits spanning the gamut, of entertainment genres from musical comedy, rock, and opera to foreign film festivals and political satire. The success of a show thus depends heavily on the creative feedback of its viewers; ideally, they should come to the show with some ideas in mind so as to avoid offering only the easiest...
...drawn from the top ranks of science fiction writing: Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Alan E. Nourse, Poul Anderson and Jack Williamson. They bring their considerable talents to bear on the issues confronting science fiction, but the end result, while absorbing, tends to be choppy. The essays run the gamut from a discussion of science fiction in the visual media to a detailed description of the way a writer creates an imaginary solar system, complete with charts and graphs. At their worst the essays are self-consciously strident and border, at times, on the obscure. Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow only...
Although individual preferences have run the full gamut of uses for the land, the alternative which seems to be most agreeable to most groups is the locating of the Library and Archives on the MBTA site and the Museum outside of Cambridge...
...central meeting point of countless varied threads? Can mankind be understood divorced from nature, and is it so very different from other manifestations of nature?" This, the key question of the romantic sensibility then as of ecology now, was Friedrich's obsession. He pursued it through a full gamut of subject -from beetling ice crags and the white chalk abysses of Rugen Island down to the plains, flooded in a benediction of yellow light, which were his equivalent for Paradise. "On the day he is painting air," Friedrich's wife said to a friend...