Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from now on; indeed, one of his aides affirmed that Nixon was prepared, if necessary, "to get into a rough brawl." Even the physical setting for last week's speech seemed to provide an image of an austere Chief Executive. Gone were the bust of Lincoln and the photograph of the Nixon family that he had used as trappings for his April 30 address-and been ridiculed for. This time he was flanked only by an American flag and a presidential flag. Throughout the speech, he was restrained and businesslike. When it was over, he paused for just...
Howard Baker is relaxing with his family in his home town of Huntsville, Tenn. (pop. 337), deep in the heart of Appalachia. He likes to play tennis and ride a trail bike around the mountains in the company of his 17-year-old daughter Cynthia. An avid photographer, he has been known to interrupt a tennis game to photograph a flower or a plant that has caught his eye. Last week even a weed captivated him. "The sun had caught the weed just right," a friend explained. "He'd been watching for several days to get the proper shot...
Throughout the book runs an undertone of disillusionment. Boorstin hails the photograph and phonograph, but notes how they destroyed the uniqueness of the moment, broadening experience but leveling it. Radio and television multiplied communication, but made it an increasingly private experience. Supermarkets offered the consumer an abundance of choice, and franchises the assurance of at least modest uniform quality, but the touch and smell of food became trapped in paperboard and plastic...
...view was a 48-foot-long corridor made of wallboard and lit by a flourescent green light through which you could creep sideways; a black and white photograph of two messes of junk plunked on a studio floor; a large TV screen on which a pair of lips were painstakingly mouthing "lip syne" again and again; another TV screen with a man smearing lather all over his naked hairy chest; a color photograph of a pair of hands waxing the red plastic letters "HOT;" a rusted steel plate called "Dark"--the artist claimed to have written "dark" on its underside...
...Arctic Circle, however, Peary and his friends could pull most strings. It took them two years to turn the tide of public opinion against Cook and in their favor. Cook fought back, but he was his own worst enemy. He had seriously damaged his credibility in 1906 with a photograph purporting to show him atop Mount McKinley-an assertion that has never been satisfactorily proved. His last great misadventure was as an oil-stock promoter in Texas, where a mail-fraud scandal got him five years in Leavenworth...