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...such pictures, Kertesz recognized photography's affinity for the haphazard and the fragmentary, but he never lost his classicizing impulse. Through the good government of composition, the most frivolous bits of life -- scraps of poster advertising, a hodgepodge of footprints in the snow -- were redeemed by him and made coherent. With his camera, he once said, "I give a reason to everything around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Vindication of an Old Master | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...miscellany of discrepancies, plus the fact that the police consulted no outside experts on crucial questions, was enough to suggest, if nothing else, haphazard decision-making. The issue of the timing was something else again. Law-enforcement specialists elsewhere almost unanimously raised one question: Why did the Philadelphia police move so hurriedly to extreme measures against the cultists? Why not wait, talk and starve them out, which is the standard procedure in such situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Looks Just Like a War Zone | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...loose look but it's a very polished look. There's nothing haphazard about it," says Groff. According to Ron Dominico, owner of Hair Care on 26 Dunster St., the sculpted style mixes the "wash and wear" look of the '70's with the ornate beehives, curls, and other shapes that are characteristically...

Author: By Andrea Shen, | Title: What's New in Hair | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...plane heading home, with a few hundred dollars, an overused body and the humbling realization that the London she so wanted to experience wasn't such a charming place after all. The reader can salvage a cruel irony The reader can salvage a cruel irony from this haphazard flow of events: for all her sexual exploits. Lauren remains a sort of Jamesian character, an innocent abroad, too naive and unsuspecting to see the web of intrigue in which she's been tangled...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Half-Baked | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...each and every student know his or her chances of gaining admission to every course. While such guidelines would not alleviate over-subscription, they would allow all undergraduates to make more reasoned and informed choices, earlier, about their plans of study, and would eliminate grumbling about "unfair" or "haphazard" lotteries half way through shopping week. Moreover, students could choose alternative courses on the third or fourth day of shopping period, rather than the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toward Standardization | 2/12/1985 | See Source »

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