Word: lensed
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One of the first Americans to be accepted by the international Magnum photo agency, photographer Burt Glinn captured several defining moments of the cold war, including Fidel Castro's triumphant march across Cuba and seldom-seen images of daily life in the Soviet Union. Glinn turned his lens on seemingly...
...don’t want to have two different areas of study but want to bring them together in a more cohesive way.”Foster agrees, noting that special concentrations are ideal for students who “want to look through more than one lens, and lenses that enhance what it is that they are investigating.” The trying process of successfully creating a concentration to focus on the intersection of two disciplines is a source of pride for special concentrators, according to Rich. After the extensive planning required to get through the ten-part...
When it has dealt with the subject of war on the big screen, postwar Germany has tended to view it from the dark side. Movies such as Das Boot (1981), 2004's Der Untergang (The Downfall) and Sophie Scholl (2005) explored the experience through an unwaveringly critical lens. Even the...
Afternoon in Caroni Swamp finds fanny-pack-clad, zoom-lens-toting tourists squeezed into pirogues motoring through the wetlands to catch a glimpse of the scarlet ibis, Trinidad's national bird. At sundown, some 10,000 of the vermillion-feathered, migratory waterfowl return from days spent in Venezuela, just nine...
When the Iraqi conflict is viewed through the lens of autonomy, the well-intentioned actions of the U.S. can be seen as the imposing actions of an unwelcome foreigner. Even the most thoughtful and beneficial strategies for Iraqis are likely to be met with dislike and hostility, so long as...