Word: motion
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...contrast to these naïve efforts, Schneider’s prints capture motion. The hands and lips glow to the extent that they were pressed against the negative. Some are incandescent and pulse with life, as if trying to burst out of the glass; one from a two-year old boy sits curled and silent like a raccoon’s paw, taking up almost no space on the black matte. The life that animates each hand’s outline creates tension between the jet-black background and the dark, mottled interior with its rune-like lifelines...
...wives, friends for lost friends. The marathon’s motto, “United We Run,” captured the spirit of the event. Never, perhaps, has the image of 30,000—Canadians, Ethiopians, and New Yorkers among them—running in one swift motion, under the invisible shadow of two great landmarks, been so strikingly poignant...
Other funds are just now putting their machinery in motion. Joshua Gotbaum, former executive associate director and controller of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and Franklin Thomas, a former Ford Foundation president, were named CEO and chairman, respectively, of the September 11th Fund just two weeks ago. Now they have to figure out how to best spend $320 million. "Our board hasn't even met yet," says Thomas, when asked about the September 11th Fund's future goals...
...department members had recently published an informational pamphlet illustrated with photographs of African-American writers of Harvard. Why not ask the administration to underwrite the republication of these authors in a larger pamphlet for distribution at the 350th? The President and Fellows assented, and the wheels were set in motion...
Demakis hotly contested Barrios when the resolution encroached on his own political territory. The motion was quickly defeated on a voice vote...