Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fleet Street's old-fashioned rotary presses rolled off reams of front pages about the lithesome lass who seemed to have captured the Prince's heart. One photograph showed Diana posing in the bright autumn sunlight, nice legs plainly silhouetted through her diaphanous skirt...
...like the real thing, whether in carefully chosen snippets of a candidate looking good in a public appearance or in "negative commercials" about an opponent-an unfortunate specialty of Carter's adman Gerald Rafshoon, though hardly exclusive to him. It is a corruption of the political process to photograph a hundred voters, in an imitation of random man-in-the-street sampling, and use only the ones who say they fear that Reagan would blow up the world. Even if the viewer knows it is a commercial, the image men expect the subliminal "actuality" to linger. So widespread...
...plane of Saturn's rings, soar past the moon Tethys, and on Nov. 12 come to within 124,000 km (77,174 miles) of the planet's cloud tops. Whipped by Saturn's gravity, the spacecraft will then swing quickly up and around the planet, photograph other moons, make a film of Saturn's swiftly moving clouds and rings and, finally, head out of the solar system...
...photograph of former President Richard M. Nixon adorns the wall in front of which Zellner, Reagan's state media director, sits. "I'm from Georgia and my whole family was Depression Democrat. In those days, no one in the South voted Republican. Now, no one in my family is a Democrat. And just wait for the 1980 census to redistribute the electoral votes. Carter forestalled the trend in the South, but the balance of power in this country is shifting. The political spectrum has moved. And Reagan has straddled the center...
...exception. After he was felled by a heart attack, he and his physicians chose full medical disclosure, issuing daily bulletins that went so far as to describe presidential bowel movements. Lyndon Johnson was generous with details of his 1965 gall bladder operation-and, as a now-famous photograph attests, he even showed off his scar for the nation...