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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McCain, a former Navy pilot, made the phrase a mantra during his 5 1/2 years as a POW in Hanoi. Prisoners would find reasons for hope or despair in the smallest things, leading to painful emotional swings. McCain kept his head by controlling his emotions and counseled his fellow captives to do likewise...
...polystyrene or slabs of rusty steel propped together. The paint Close applied was molecule-thin, spritzed on the painstakingly prepared gesso surface with an airbrush, in strict accordance with the grid to which Close enlarged the original photo. It suggested an obsessive involvement on the artist's part, but kept the viewer distant, with nothing sensuous to hook onto--unless you had a thing about freckles and wens. This idea of deadpan, photo-derived "objectivity" was much in the air at the time--a small movement, Photo-Realism, was one of the spin-offs from Pop Art--but nobody took...
...aren't so peaceable in the Animal Kingdom. This week brought us microwaved parrots and chainsaw-wielding deer. Meanwhile, animals are dropping like, well, flies at Disney's new zoo, and the American Kennel Club is rethinking its position that while Doberman pinschers are kid-friendly, Chihuahuas should be kept away from both junior AND Taco Bell. What's a card-carrying member of PETA to do? Rent 'Pet Sematary', of course (but don't let anyone see you do it), a God-Awful picture that will nevertheless leave you nostalgic for the time when Stephen King could...
However, the Crimson defense anchored by Cynar kept the Bears from getting any closer. They forced a flaccid outside shot in a pivotal man-down situation and stopped the Bears in three transition situations...
...jack hammer. It wasn't ideal, but the second picture was undoubtedly my least favorite. The machine rocked me as if I were reclining atop ocean waves. The waves of magnetism forcefully rode up my spine and made me ill. At that point, I closed my eyes and kept them closed for the rest of the procedure...