Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost exclusive use of the point in space rather than the point in time as the means of expression. In this respect he is quite different from Henri Cartier-Bresson, who has developed the "Decisive Moment" with such skill that it almost seems the only means by which a photograph may be constructed...
...dangers for U.S. policy were arising in the Middle East and in North Africa. There was uneasiness in a number of the world's capitals about whether Dulles' State Department was organized and administered well enough to meet those problems as they should be met. A photograph of Dulles lying on a beach in Ceylon when there was highly disturbing news on the shores of the Mediterranean was splashed five columns across the front page of a London newspaper under the caption U.S. HEAVYWEIGHT...
...London, went along with their line, but acknowledged that he feared for the future of the Legion's remaining 60 British officers. The British said that Hussein had sent word that he still wanted to be friends, just as he had also sent a courier with an autographed photograph of himself to the departing Glubb. But the public expulsion of Glubb, without thanks or praise, after 25 years' service, spoke louder than Hussein's professions...
...papers than an unexpected no might have done. The day's most offbeat headline (over a huge picture of a grinning Ike): the New York Daily News's FORE! ! The most original comment ran on the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser's editorial page. It was an uncaptioned photograph taken months ago at a prankish Arizona reception and blown up big. The picture showed Adlai Stevenson with a hangman's noose around his neck...
Black-Market Deals. Before the sentence was carried out, a shapely blonde show girl who signed herself Mrs. Edith Dahl wrote a poignant letter to General Francisco Franco, pleading for her husband's pardon and thoughtfully enclosed a fetching photograph of herself. Although it was later denied that Franco ever saw Edith's picture, a letter came back bearing the rebel leader's signature, with the courtly, old-fashioned Spanish salutation q.b.s.p. ("I kiss your feet"), and promising to spare Dahl's life...