Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Women and Infants HIV Transmission Study (WITS) will examine the frequency of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus' transmission to fetus and its effect on the health of pregnant women and on the outcome of pregnancy, researchers said. The project will also chart the development of the disease in children...
...protesters charged that Major General Avram Mitzna, who oversaw military operations in the West Bank from May 1987 to June 1989, was responsible for several human rights abuses in the occupied territories...
...Spectors' home preparations for an artificial insemination attempt, lending the couple's futile but exhaustive efforts an air of absurdity. In another scene the camera stays stationary as Linda moves from room to room, rather than following her. With this kind of cinematography, Immediate Family merely observes human foibles rather than draws attention to them...
...drew upon a breed of independent artist-photographer, often with one foot in Bohemia, to capture the arresting aspect of the everyday. Among the foremost practitioners were the German emigre Tim Gidal and Hungarian-born Andre Kertesz, whose enigmatic views of the Eiffel Tower and Paris streets imbued any human presence with an ephemeral tension...
...mind's eye. Of the billions of metal sheets, glass plates, celluloid spools and other light-sensitive surfaces exposed to history in the name of publishing, only a handful of images have themselves become part of history. These form a sort of shared visual heritage for the human race, a treasury of significant memories. Every educated person should be familiar with them, just as he or she would know the great achievements of painting, sculpture or music. And every person, educated or not, should be moved by these journalistic images, just as he or she would be by the masterpieces...