Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...objective, if the various interpretations of the Academician are related to a spectrum of possible actions and those are depicted absolutely realistically, or to a number of possible conclusions drawn from the same picture. Proust was wordy anyway, but he might have meant that people looking at a photograph are also caught up in a kind of drama, and each person has a different idea of what will assist the action of his or her own life, and they latch onto the details in a picture accordingly...
...photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist." This is what an arrogant leech-upon-artists-type says in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. And it's a measure of his pretension that he thinks a picture of the corner drugstore down the street, a store you might pass every day, couldn't have any "dignity." But in the novel, his contemporaries nod in assent, and Proust himself might accept this sentimental notion...
...hearing failed to resolve the conflict between the Secret Service and San Francisco Police Inspector Jack O'Shea. The inspector said he had warned both the FBI and the Secret Service that "she might be another Squeaky Fromme." O'Shea testified that he had a photograph of Moore enlarged and six prints made for the Secret Service, but that they were not picked up by the agents. In what appears to have been a misunderstanding, the agents thought O'Shea was unconcerned about any danger from Moore. "Do we need anything else, do we have a problem...
...Watch List. The operation was centered in the U.S. post office at New York's Kennedy Airport, where as many as six CIA agents worked in cooperation with top U.S. postal officials to open, scan and photograph the letters. Anyone whose name was on a "watch list" had his mail opened if it was sent to or came from the Soviet Union. The committee revealed three names on the eclectic list: Biologist Linus Pauling, the left-leaning Nobel laureate; Labor Leader Victor Reuther; and John Steinbeck, the late novelist...
...Rumanian-born actor, who attended England's Clifton College. "So I stoop a lot." Ferrer meanwhile discovered that Stalin had a partially crippled left arm, which he held shorter than his right. As Stalin did, so did Ferrer, and the re-creation of the famous 1945 Potsdam photograph was as authentic as Ferrer and his non-crippled arm could make...