Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" a few nights ago satirized a gallery of pre-election hopefuls around the country. When it came to the governor's race in California, a photograph of candidate Tom Bradley was accompanied by the quip, "Bradley if elected, will be the nation's tallest governor." The line was a playful poke at the carefully subdued atmosphere in which California will probably make Los Angeles Mayor Bradley America's first Black governor...
Meanwhile in Chicago, police chemists discovered another cyanide-laced bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol among those returned by stores on the Near North Side after the deaths. This development came a few days after police released a blurred photograph taken in a pharmacy in that neighborhood...
...always insisted that her husband's eminence had nothing to do with her. She did not give press conferences. She refused to sit for her official White House portrait, and it had to be done from a photograph. Only intimate friends were allowed into the family quarters. She preserved every protocol and precedent established before her, not out of any instinctive formality but because she would not rock the boat...
...handed him the photographs. He looked down and saw that his granddaughter's name was on the top one. He spoke it aloud, then looked at each photograph, repeating the name of each grandchild. His lips trembled, and tears welled up in his eyes. He told me a little about each child and especially about the one who seemed to be his favorite. We were both emotional as we talked quietly for a few minutes about grandchildren and about...
...FLAMBEUR opens with a wonderful shot of Paris' Montmartre district. Softened by the early dawn, the view is reminiscent of an old, grainy photograph. But as the camera descends into the Place Pigalle and the back room of a seedy nightclub where Bob Montagne (Roger Duchesne) is losing miserably at craps, the atmosphere changes to one which is highly stylized and starkly black-and-white. The beauty of this film is the way in which it blends those two textures, morally as well as visually, into a witty and seamless union of French style and American film noir...