Word: marginalls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
To say that Robert Frank is among the most important living photographers is a statement so at odds with his rough-edged accomplishment that it obscures its own point. Frank is the genius of the marginal and the unofficial. The nondescript corner of some ratty diner in South Carolina, the...
"Until very recently, Chicano literature, women's literature and other ethnic literatures have been considered very marginal in terms of legitimacy and quality," he says. "For the first time people are really listening to these points of view."
Phil Gramm is banking on the same thing. Conservative Christians tend to see the former college economics teacher as a man more interested in marginal tax rates than the antiabortion crusade. That was the Gramm who talked to TIME a week before the convention. "I'm not going to spend...
Born to poor farmers in central Cuba, Rodriguez credits the revolution with improving her life. As one of 12 brothers and sisters on a marginal farm in the 1950s, she almost never ate meat. Her brothers worked the sugarcane fields three months a year, then the family virtually starved the...
Arthur says Hansen failed flight school because she was a marginal flyer who would not improve with training. Maybe so, although she flew for more than a year, sometimes solo, with good marks. Some admirals are more enlightened than the men below them, but until they shake up the ranks...