Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wasn't bad. One fellow who went back for seconds turned out to be Radical Lawyer William Kunstler, who said he had had no food the day before. "I'd eat anything." he said, speaking with his mouth full. ··· After receiving the dedication of Magnum Opus for Organ from Composer Herbert Howells, Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath reminisced to the Royal College of Organists about the days when he himself was a 15-year-old choirmaster and organist. Composer Howells, he said, "told me that if I was prepared to be as unpleasant...
Burk Uzzle, a former Life photographer and current member of Magnum Photos, Inc., leads us on a tour of pop and chrome America. Oblique lines on a parking lot lead us to a lone horse-rider on blacktop; an arrow directs us past a rooster on a traffic island. Emphasizing design and pure form, Uzzle illustrates an econoline van making it a highly disciplined composition--circular wheels, white slab body that flows into each white side of the frame, and black geometric solids surround the white...
...Henry Gibson, the diminutive, shaky-voiced poet, late of TV's Laugh-In, has become a full-fledged eco-centric. First it was some pro-ecology statements in the summer issue of Environmental Quality magazine. Last week he delivered his magnum opus, a poem cycle set to Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, which was played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl. As the music soared, Henry versed about news-wise kangaroos, pacifist elephants, and hens and roosters who have been brutalized by technology...
Also waiting, behind a steel blast fence not far from the plane, were two FBI sharpshooters armed with .308 Norma Magnum rifles with telescopic sights. Their instructions: "If you get an opportunity for a clean shot, take it." Two other FBI agents approached Obergfell on the runway and tried to persuade him to give himself up. A priest offered to have the Catholic Church buy him a ticket to Italy. Obergfell grew tense, still clutching the girl and waiting for the 707 to taxi to where he stood. "Get that goddamned plane out here!" he shouted...
...work portrays the many faces of France: children at play in the slums, lovers nuzzling at sidewalk cafes, old people reflecting on the long ago. It shows not dynamic events but ageless instants gathered in more than a year of shooting throughout his native land. Though he founded the Magnum agency in 1947 with the late Robert Capa and others, Cartier-Bresson never shared his partners' love of front-page action photography...