Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians, Makinen had been approached in Berlin by two mysterious sponsors whom he knew only as "Jim" and "Dwyer," and provided with Intourist food and lodging vouchers, camera, film and dagger-everything but the traditional cloak. They told him what places to visit and what military installations he should photograph. The Russian press boasted that his downfall had been due to the vigilance of "plain Soviet workers" who had become suspicious of Makinen's choice of such unsightly picture subjects as airfields, army trucks and soldiers...
...scene reflected in a pool of troubled water, A few feet away, Delaunay uses powerful swirls of clashing colors to prove that "color alone is both form and subject." Rousseau was never more endearing than in his Artillerymen, who are all stiffly lined up as in a regimental photograph. And Marc Chagall was never more touching and imaginative than in his fantasy called Birthday. The painting shows a husband floating in, mid-air as he lands a kiss on his wife's lips. Chagall said it was inspired by the phrase "head over heels in love...
...revealing photograph hints that the women might busy themselves with another phase of "temperance" work. Remember that the addition of excess poundage due to high caloric intake is usually the result of the commission of at least one of the mortal sins in the Christian list; namely, gluttony...
...sleek Mercedes, victorious Dr. Banda drove through cheering crowds to the $28,000 house bought for him by the Malawi Party. There, seated beside a stuffed leopard and beneath a photograph of Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta (see above), Banda announced that whites who will not go along with African rule "will find there is no place for them in Nyasaland." He reiterated his threat to pull his country out of Welensky's Central African Federation "as soon as possible," and added ominously: "If they insist on us staying in the Federation, they'd better bring their soldiers...
AUSTRALIAN artist William Dobell, 61, a man of gentle manner but with an incisive painter's eye-as his April 4, 1960 cover of Australia's Prime Minister Menzies showed-likes to capture his subject's character in a way that a photograph cannot. He feared that South Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem would be a "mandarin-like subject, whose face might not reveal his feelings.'' Instead, sketching his subject in the palace drawing room in Saigon, while Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow conducted his interview, Dobell found President Diem an animated, "rather...