Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts of Perkins' life are plain to the point of austerity. The offspring of two old New England families, Perkins had a genteel suburban childhood in New Jersey, spent four years at Harvard, tried newspaper reporting for a while and then joined Scribner's. He married and fathered five daughters. His eccentricities were notable chiefly because of their rarity. He liked to wear a hat in the office, pulled down so that his ears stuck forward. He doodled pictures that were ostensibly of Napoleon; around the prominent eyes and the high-bridged nose, they looked like self-portraits...
...Evergreen, Plain...
...influence is unmistakable, especially when there is such close available comparison. This is not to say, however, that while influenced by the same man, the photographers appear in any way related to one another. Arbus's portraits of human oddities bear little resemblance to Alston Purvis' color details of plain doorways and windows other than the similar oblong shape of their frames. As the catalogue to the exhibit states, "Each one saw a slightly different side to the man, and Evans was a master at revealing different qualities to different people." The key to the success of these two shows...
...despite the British team's long experience, the procedure had never resulted in a live birth. To bring it off successfully requires scientific ingenuity, surgical dexterity and, some might say, a lot of plain luck. The doctor must remove the egg at the exact moment in the monthly cycle when it has reached maturity. To ensure the success of that crucial initial step, Steptoe and Edwards follow a standard procedure for treating infertility: they administer fertility hormones, like those that have been responsible for the rash of multiple births in recent years. That encourages the ripening of several eggs...
...Evergreen, Plain...