Word: greates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said Goroff. "It's like a 12-hour bonding period. You get tired, but happy and tired. It's a great feeling of accomplishment...
...There have been two great political events over the last 15 years," said Sutherland, former Commissioner of the European Community said. "One of them is '1992'...The other is recent happenings in Eastern Europe...Neither of them can fail without damaging the other, and U.S. support for both is crucial...
...sometimes felt that because photographs are the product of a mechanical tool, a camera, that some of the great pictures made by photojournalists are simply lucky shots, accidents. One day when Edward Steichen, the late dean of American photography, was taking a group of visitors through an exhibition of pictures by photojournalists, he was asked, "If you were to take all the lucky pictures, the accidents, out of this exhibition, how many pictures would you have left?" Steichen pondered that, and then he said, "Not many, perhaps. But have you ever thought how many great accidents have been made...
...industry, the very geometry of the industrial landscape were news. The diagonals of an iron truss or the plunging lines of a new bridge told of the spreading dominion of industry and technology in a way that words never could. Photography came along just in time to record the great expansion of empire by the colonial powers as they stretched toward the Pacific. When the U.S. moved westward, many of the first classic photos of the newfound landscape appeared as engravings in Harper's Weekly and other periodicals. What they were reporting back East was not just scenery but, once...
...know about the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and we all know that it's supposed to happen again sometime. The epic aerial shots of the city-on-the-bay that the television networks played throughout last Tuesday evening certainly carried enough historical grandeur to fit into a future documentary on the 20th century. The World Series angle could only help: putting the Series off for more than a week nearly guarantees an historical asterisk, at least. And we were there...