Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge dusty books, and even the telephone looked preoccupied. As I glumly eyed my collection of paperback summaries and other people's notes on political theory, the one roommate for whom I have hope leaped to his feet. He announced to the scandalized grinds that he was off to photograph Debbie Reynolds, movie star and all that. Entranced, I slipped into an Oxford button-down, seized my sketchbook, and raced off to the Hasty Pudding, where they had the red carpet rolled all the way up to the Hayes-Bickford trash cans. Presently a thirty-foot Harvard limousine with flying...
...House races together in a package for either party. Many winners were entirely unprepared for the results, a situation best summed up by a flustered Democrat, Mrs. Martha Griffiths, who won a Detroit seat from the G.O.P. Posing for her election victory picture, she pleaded: "Don't photograph my legs. I didn't have time for stockings...
More Stories is a series of photographic slides. But these slides have been lopped off at either and like a photograph: there is a triple dimension and a color in them that is limitless. Each is relative to a living condition; each living character has a living type in reality. It is this retouching of the slides that reveals the brilliance of Frank O'Connor...
...picture of Paris in the rain [Aug. 30] might be consoling to those who wanted to go to Paris this summer and couldn't; it might also be seized upon with vindictive satisfaction by those who went and got rained upon . . . But to an old parigot, that beautiful photograph brings waves of tender nostalgia . . . Thanks to the habitual dove-grey Paris sky, I first learned to see color in the wet stones of the misty buildings ... in the black trunks of the chestnut trees and in their rich green leaves shining from the rain's varnish . . . What...
...affection by installing her in his private apartments a few steps away from his office, where she would "lie for hours on end, waiting for a visit from her master, reading and daydreaming." From childhood on (she was 29 years his junior), Claretta had slept with Mussolini's photograph under her pillow; to be his mistress had been her sole ambition; he was "her first and only real love...