Word: headshots
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have her picture taken with Blair and people asked, ‘Is that what you’re wearing?’ They gave her a scarf or something for a headshot,” Szwed says...
...afternoon also included a brief presentation from the League of Conservation Voters members, who distributed pamphlets featuring a headshot of George W. Bush that read, “Some things were never meant to be recycled...
...still amused by the authority of that scrappy headshot surrounded by a few lines of text--an authority that might seem misplaced were it not so ubiquitous. This combination of facts and picture have become a widely accepted way to maximize security and minimize trouble...
...subtleties of that headshot explain a lot about the subtle difficulties of re-encountering one's own writing. Photographs, it's said, always seem off, because the image they present (horizontally) reverses the image one typically sees in the mirror. The inevitable dissymetries of the human face make this reversal slightly disconcerting. And perhaps this is the best way to explain the differences I find coming to my ink-smudged text on Monday mornings, coming as a reader, no longer approaching from the inside...
...This is power beyond what the text can provide. (Bush has courts, Washington, time; I have sentences, capitals, period.) But somewhere in these hypotheticals, somewhere between the shorthand and the puns, between the writing and response, are the beginnings of authority. The space between comma and dash, introduction and headshot, margin and word is space full of promise...