Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hell, and our troops get exhausted, and dirty, and ... boy! it's rough; but still they fight valiantly onward. Above all, Duncan's photos are predictable. We need only visualize our shallowest thoughts about any news event that Duncan covers to know what his photos will look like...
...plan is intimate," he explained. "It's magical and fun-like. Architectural differences seem to be part of it, unordered and unregimented...
...colonialist can take issue with a neo-imperialist, I should like to register my disagreement with Raymond Vernon's critique of Richard Hyland's CRIMSON tract on the Center for International Affairs. Hyland's technique was not, as Vernon alleged, a replica of McCarthyism. It was far more subtle and sophisticated-like a quality TV commercial...
...story is clear from the beginning. As in much advertising, there is a testimonial, a laboratory report by an unbiased observer, and ad-man, lab-man who drops the role of impartial analyst to lead the NAC "tour of the zoo" while testing his product. And like the media, the tract appeals to a valued life-style-in this case, a morally superior one. The reporter is even strata-spherically above accepting the University's blood-stained brownies. And consider the drama. The identification of the enemy, for instance: clear-cut, as in a cowboy movie. Or the puffing about...
...petit bourgeois storm of xenophobia by means of innuendo and aspersion. The intimations and half-truths are there, to be sure. But the mood and the mode-the slickness and the manipulation-belong to Madison Avenue. Creating a market that does not exist, pushing a luxury product like revolution fabricated out of cheap verbal plastic: that is Hyland's bag. I for one was disappointed. The issue should have been on glossy paper, and the photos in color...