Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To make their measurements, the astronomers used radio telescopes, which can peer through the clouds of interstellar dust that hide the galactic center from the glassy-eyed view of optical telescopes. Still, the enigmatic source of radiation was an enormous distance away -- 30,000 light-years, or 180 quadrillion miles...
In Europe, she has already appeared in her new guise as a supersalaried (reportedly $7,000 to $10,000 for a standard photo session) fashion supermodel. It seems like a retake of some 35 years ago, when her mother, Grace Kelly, was a model before becoming a movie star. She...
A paparazzo's flash ruptures privacy. A photographer's strobe can be softer: illusion backlit in short bursts. It is not glamour flashing in Stephanie's haunted blue-green eyes, though. Whatever she wears, however she holds herself, she seems to stare straight past the lens, resisting any easy truce...
Anyone who switched on television last week could not dodge the images, old and new, of Viet Nam: U.S. helicopters retreating from Saigon ten years ago, gaily garbed celebrators parading through the streets of that city, now named after Ho Chi Minh, on the tenth anniversary of the Communist victory...
Wit and tragedy, both are evoked and invoked with consummate artistry clarity and immediacy: "And as I see these things in the light of lamp, all perishable and transient, how bound up I know I am to all that is human endeavor, to all that past and to all that...