Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French writer Roland Barthes used to argue that every truly moving photograph has a single absorbing spot, a place that calls forth feeling. He called it the punctum, Latin for puncture or point. It could be something as simple as the little smudge that is the comet Hale-Bopp, which was for a while the world's most celebrated dot. Since it was an ancient dot, and one that got around a lot, it shed an astral glamour wherever it appeared. Like the President or Sharon Stone, it made everything, even whole mountain ranges, look more consequential beside...
...first hint cropped up late last year: billboards displaying a giant photograph of lightning bolts across a dark sky and the enigmatic message YOU CAN'T HEAR IT COMING, BUT IT IS. Within weeks, it came. In a blaze of publicity, General Motors launched the nation's first mass-market electric car in modern times--a whisper-quiet, aerodynamic techno-marvel christened EV1. Thousands signed up to test-drive the spiffy two-seater, engineered with the help of rocket scientists to the tune of some half a billion dollars. So far, it is available only in California and Arizona...
...image on the stamp is based on a 1962 picture taken on the island of Majorca by Alfred Eisenstadt, one of LIFE's--and this century's--great photojournalists, whom Luce hired in 1936. Reproduced as a drawing on TIME's cover when Luce died in 1967, this particular photograph captures the formidable intelligence and fierce concentration that made Luce a great editor--and now, officially, a Great American...
Nevertheless, there it was, staring me right in the face. On the cover of GQ was George Clooney. Beneath his sardonically smiling face were the words of truth: "George Clooney and the Meaning of Guyness," an article by Peter Richmond. From the look of the photograph (with a little fashion savoir faire provided by a small insert), it seems that real men wear stripes, lots of them, preferably by Emporio Armani, at a total cost of somewhere in the thousand-dollar range. Incidentally, or not so incidentally, real men are also white, but that's for another time...
...Hersh's notes for those interviews, examined by TIME, closely match the accounts he offers in his book. He warns in his book that Spalding suffers from "short-term-memory loss," which was apparent in his interview with TIME. Hersh now says he has sources beyond Mickelson for the photograph story, though he doesn't explain why those sources are not identified in the book...