Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...photography can make of big events is a scribble of light that promises more information than it delivers, what can photography do? What are its proper subjects? The argument of Szarkowski's show is that photography has undergone changes similar to those that overtook painting and sculpture. "The general movement of American photography," Szarcowski writes, "has been from public to private concerns." Photography has become more and more aware of its own history and limits as a medium: a debate about these is built into the art, so that photography, instead of being an unproblematic record of appearances, is also...
During the 20 years following her retirement from the University, Stedman led a movement in England for the restoration of the Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames, and in 1977 was made an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her efforts...
...fortunes. But much of the opening-day hysteria has passed, and rents of property not on the Boardwalk have returned to normal. Indeed, some residents joke that the city's best chance of getting new money out of the casinos and on to the streets rests with a movement organized by a women's rights activist and a former Atlantic City madam. They have formed a group called HUSH (Help Undo Sexual Hypocrisy) that is trying to legalize prostitution...
...differences between the two sides centered on the so-called core issues: the applicability of U.N. Resolution 242 to the West Bank and Gaza, sovereignty of both areas, and the degree of Israeli withdrawal. To try to achieve some movement on these issues, Vance announced that State Department Troubleshooter Alfred Atherton Jr. will travel to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Israel this week to lay the groundwork for more talks. Vance himself will return to the Middle East to chair another meeting between the Israelis and the Egyptians in early August. Washington hopes to synthesize the positions...
...Jamaica both belong to the Third World." Later, at a luncheon given by Democratic Socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley, the handsome, white-haired Chinese leader delivered a now familiar blast at the Americans and the Russians: "The superpowers are racking their brains to divide and sabotage the Third World movement by despicable means, but the nonaligned countries are uniting to frustrate their schemes." By week's end Keng had completed similar whirlwind propaganda visits to Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, where local leaders received him with the bemused formality that reflected continuing policy differences with China...