Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remains of a samurai's dream." Eustacia Soliven, a Manila dentist, reflected later, "Maybe we have learned something from all this. After all, the best things we see in France are the reminders of the excesses of Kings." A few came to plunder and destroy. One man threw a photograph of the departed First Lady into an ornamental fish pool. But mostly, since an invitation to the Malacanang Palace had long been considered a jewel beyond price to the average Filipino, they came as tourists and as survivors. One excited old man said he had lived a block away...
Carmen Scarpa has a very special photograph hanging on a wall in his room. It was taken his junior year at Andover High when his basketball team reached the state finals against a squad from Cambridge...
...accused of trying to sell two documents, including one on tactics to be followed by crews of the SR-71 reconnaissance plane, dubbed the Blackbird, which Ott's squadron flies. The supersonic jet, routinely used for intelligence gathering, can reach altitudes of 80,000 ft. and is equipped to photograph up to 100,000 sq. mi. of territory in an hour. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the maximum penalty for two of the four counts against Ott is death...
...change of his mature style, from black and white to color. At the same time, there was never much interest in his early efforts. The paintings of industrial landscapes from his youth, city streets, bar scenes and alienated clowns (Nijinsky as Petrouchka, done from an old photograph, was a favorite image) were seen, if at all, as a mere prelude to his abstract work. They did not look as "interesting" as the early work of his colleagues because Kline was the only abstract expressionist not touched by surrealism. He painted as though he had never seen a Miro...
...thing that strikes me is that this happened four days after the successful Voyager rendezvous with Uranus, a planet we've never even had a photograph of," said Dr. Edward Ney, a University of Minnesota professor of physics and astronomy and a shuttle critic...