Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the reason, the Boston Ballet falls short too much of the time. At worst, the edges were fuzzy, like a photograph out of focus--one dancer among several off the music by a glaring beat or two, four dancers in a line with legs extended at four different levels. More often, what was missing was not so much technique as imaginative energy. Nothing in particular distinguished several perfectly competent dancers in the first act from perfectly competent performers in any of a dozen other balletic roles. If anyone knew they were the gift-bearing Fairies, it was thanks...
...haggard figure leaning against a lamppost outside a branch of Paris' famed Drugstore bore so little resemblance to the familiar newspaper photograph that no one even gave him a second glance. Yet for more than two months, thousands of police had been combing through much of France looking for a single trace of him. Then early last week, with authorities suddenly hot on the trail, Belgian Millionaire Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, 40, was released by his captors in a frenzied panic that contrasted sharply with their coolly professional capture of him 63 days earlier. Dropped off in suburban Ivry...
...Zoologist Won Pyong Oh, director of the Institute of Ornithology at South Korea's Kyung Hee University. Five times each winter, Won, 52, makes a well-advertised venture into the DMZ under the watchful eyes of soldiers on both sides of the line in order to observe and photograph the monogamous cranes in their elaborate mating rituals, which include wing flapping, bows and leaps into the air. "The Americans get very nervous," explains Won, who makes his perch right on the Military Demarcation Line in the very middle of the DMZ. "They're afraid the North Koreans will...
...seems seeing isn't believing these days, at least not on the cover of Newsweek. In a correction box obscured in the letters-to-the-editor portion of last week's Newsweek, the editors confessed that they--oops!--made just a tiny mistake. The rocket launchers happened to be photographed, not in the jungles of Africa blowing up innocent women, children, and capitalists, but at a military parade in--you guessed it--down home Cuba. "By an inadvertence, this explanation of the cover photograph was left out," the correction box stated contritely, but not too contritely: the next line reminded...
...might who has picked out one piece of achieved sculpture from all the hack carvings littering the steps of a hotel for white tourists..." And when Castle tucks Sam into bed, he thinks: "He looked more African than his mother, and the memory of a famine photograph came to Castle's mind--a small corpse spread-eagled on desert sand, watched by a vulture." It's as if, the triumph of liberation forces having made it impossible for Greene's characters to go to colonialism, Greene is now bringing colonialism home to his characters...