Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Known as "Jimmy" to his friends, St. Clair is sometimes also called "the Silver Fox" because of his gray hair, the sly cast to his eyes, and his cunning ways in court. Because he spends extraordinarily long hours researching his cases, he is rarely surprised by the other side. Arguing...
In 1903 J. Pierpont Morgan sat for the most succinct photograph of big money ever taken: Alfred Steichen's portrait of the financial titan glaring at the intrusive lens, an old, suspicious bull walrus, one hand gripping the chair arm as though about to reduce its mahogany to flinders...
In the 1960s a psychic superstar came along in the person of Ted Serios, a hard-drinking, onetime bellhop from Chicago. Serios' gift was definitely offbeat: he produced pictures inside a Polaroid camera using nothing but his mind and a little hollow tube he called his "gismo." Reporters Charles...
Today there are two ways of looking at our strategic forces. Seen through the lens of assured destruction, there are far too many strategic nuclear forces and we ought to look for ways to reduce the force level. Seen in counterforce terms, however, the force is woefully inadequate both in...
These things only get beyond their usualness by being caught so precisely and spontaneously to begin with. There is a clear effort to avoid the freak image, wailing for attention. Because the camera asserts its simple means, the slight twist of a wide angle lens, for instance, is able to...