Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meteorite only a few million years ago. The event was so recent, Masursky believes, that the floor of Humboldt is still gradually rising. This "isostatic rebound," as he calls it, has produced an obvious fracture in the crater floor-evident for the first time in the Orbiter 4 photograph...
...According to the book A Man Called Lucy [May 5], Holland in 1940 disregarded advance warnings about the Nazi invasion. However, I ran the photograph units for the Dutch Resistance and have a photostat of a May 9, 1940 order indicating that the book is not quite correct...
...false, as has Picasso. But, said the D.A., the artist who did his best to help the cops was none other than David Stein. When detectives raided his apartment last September, they found half-done paintings, stamps that Stein had used to forge Paris gallery certificates-and a photograph of Stein, stripped to his handsome waist, in front of an easel busily painting a Chagall...
...issue's other story--Thomas Fallaw's "Like A Photograph Inviting You"--is considerably less compelling. "Photograph" is a fine prose exercise, but Fallaw's emphasis on description and the frustrating fact that nothing ever really happens make the story almost impossible to finish reading...
...difficulties in "Photograph" and the success of "Rider" pretty well take in the range of fluctuations within the entire issue--from the well-written but dull to the lively and engaging. But the magazine's infrequent lapses don't even take up much space, and most of the issue is an energetic presentation of basically interesting material. All of which suggests that the Advocate, despite its austere celebration of the Centennial, has not succumbed to the boring impotence of senility...