Word: matter-of-fact
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...fate that, at 83, Callahan is known almost entirely by his work. But it is work of sufficient power and mystery to have opened up some new lines of feeling in 20th century photography, above all a kind of dry-eyed romanticism, subdued but haunting. In his matter-of-fact pictures of his naked wife or in his radiant seascapes, the world is both plain and pregnant with hidden meaning. Everything is seen through the filter of his yearning for understandings that are always just out of reach. The Callahan retrospective that continues through May 19 at the National Gallery...
...college student from Houston, talked about "friends who died from suicides, fights, drugs. In any black neighborhood, everyone has seen friends killed or taken off to jail. I want people to see we can get together without fighting." In Brooklyn salesman Kirk McNeil, 29, was more matter-of-fact. "I expect the march to change my life," he said...
...MORNING OF THE VERDICT, THE people who worked on the 18th floor of the Los Angeles Criminal Courts building moved in a blurred slow motion. If they spoke at all, the prosecutors at the district attorney's office did so quietly and only of matter-of-fact things like their morning cup of coffee, not about the impending decision. L.A. County sheriffs posted extra security staffers on the inside of the locked doors of the D.A.'s office. The Goldman family huddled in the prosecutors' sanctum sanctorum, a drab room occupied mostly by cubicles and shelves lined with material from...
...named Stevens, sets out in 1956 on a motoring trip; he wants to persuade Miss Kenton, a former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, to come back and work for the house's new American owner. But as Stevens remembers the good old days, the 1930s, his dry reserve and matter-of-fact tone are threatened by a troubling perception: perhaps his devotion to Lord Darlington, later disgraced for having tried to appease the Nazis, was misplaced. Near the end, when he briefly weeps for his wasted life, the pathos is shattering...
...clique surrounding him." Anyway, he adds, "our future is determined by the Israelis and the Americans, who believe the Palestinians should be quiet and not make trouble. Therefore, we are given a little thing and that's it." Saleh, however, is not angry; his voice is dispassionate, matter-of-fact. "We live from day to day," he explains, returning to his counter. "I'm not willing to exhaust my energies awaiting the fulfillment of high hopes." Such resignation may prove the salvation of Arafat. Unable to deliver his people more, he may find comfort in their realization that they must...