Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carson show and was named Ventriloquist of the Year at the convention. Sharp one- liners fell like hatchets. Lucas at one point categorized one of his roasters as "a good example of what happens when a fetus does not get enough oxygen." All good fun, and afterward a group photograph was taken of everyone and every dummy. It made for a particularly arresting tableau...
Meetings with the Lyolyas are the occasions when correspondents most frequently come into indirect contact with the KGB's Second Main Directorate, the unit in charge of watching -- and sometimes entrapping -- foreigners. The encounters are always a little unnerving. KGB agents often tail known dissidents to watch and photograph those they meet. Or the KGB will suborn the dissidents, compelling them to pass on incriminating material or encourage incriminating activity -- as probably happened in the Daniloff case. Sometimes supposed dissidents are actually KGB agents or paid informers assigned to compromise correspondents...
...years after that photograph was taken, Senator Kennedy, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, was assassinated in Los Angeles. Young as they were, both Kathleen, then 16, and Joe, 15, were old enough in 1968 to understand what had happened and to retain the impression that "Daddy," as they still call their father, had made upon them. "You have a special and particular responsibility now, which I know you will fulfill," Robert Kennedy wrote to Joe on the day his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was buried in 1963. "Be kind to others who are less fortunate than...
...photograph, the gentle hill rolls down from the sprawling house to the spot under the broad tree where the family, numbering ten at the time, is strolling hand in hand. First comes Robert F. Kennedy, then his wife Ethel, then Daughter Kathleen, Son Joe and, in descending order, the rest of the brood. In the picture, the father looks as if he is pulling them all after him, up the next hill...
...least the accompanying photographs are entertaining. An 1871 posed photograph of the Natural History Society in suits, bowties and hats captures two mischievous members stuffing a small alligator into a jug. Perhaps a shot in a future commemorative volume will show members of the Bibliophiles Club doing the same with this ill-constructed volume...