Word: mm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State Arts Museum, he began obsessively photographing illustrations, lithographs, old prints and any other images within focal reach of his Leica. In 1935 Bettmann fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. with $5 and his father's best suit. He also took with him two steamer trunks of exposed 35-mm film. This trove grew into what Bettmann, a courtly scholar as well as a clever businessman, proudly merchandised as a "complete history of civilization...
...Friday some compliance with the agreement had begun. Journalists were taken by Bosnian Serb authorities to witness removal of three T-55 tanks, three 105-mm howitzers and several mortars, but the journalists were not allowed to see where the weapons were taken. The airport was reopened after having been shut down for five months, and the first flight in carried French Defense Minister Charles Millon with a shipment of flour. Several more aid flights arrived Saturday. At the same time, two U.N. relief convoys rumbled into Sarajevo with minimal harassment at Bosnian Serb checkpoints...
...like Reno's. No place can. The stadium is enormous, a city-block square; the gift shop alone is 11,000 sq. ft. The 80 bowling lanes can be covered over to make 38,000 sq. ft. of convention space. A 172-seat theater opened last week, with 70-mm showings of To Fly and a Reno travelog on a four-story screen. Pearson is already booking the theater for lectures and the space outside for a wide array of events, such as an auction in which 1,000 Harley-Davidsons will be displayed on the stadium's gleaming approaches...
When the Bosnian Serbs' 120-mm mortar shell fell on the crowded shopping area last week, few residents believed the U.N. and NATO would live up to the promise they had made earlier in the summer to respond harshly if the Serbs attacked Sarajevo. "I am skeptical. So many people have died, and so many empty threats have been made," said hairdresser Admir Savic, 30, on the day after the massacre. "You can fool somebody once, maybe even twice, but nobody is going to believe you the third time. If they wanted to help us, they would have done...
Anger: Basically I was quite alone when I started. On the East Coast, I was aware that another woman was working on 16 mm film as I was--it was the media at the time for home movies, and I started with a home movie camera. I was always interested in using film as expression . I just saw the potential to film for this use and I make my money doing other things like writing books...