Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know why some villagers and animals were able to survive the deadly cloud. Colonel Michael Wiener, the physician who headed the Israeli medical team, speculated that survivors may have been positioned in air currents that somehow escaped contamination. At least one survivor's good fortune involved more than plain luck. Dennis Chin of Su-Bum told reporters that he had been lying on his bed when the choking gas descended. As he gasped for air, Chin dragged himself to a windowless shed behind his house, where presumably there was enough oxygen to enable him to wait out the calamity...
...Lawrence, Kans., Austin, Pittsburgh, Aspen, Colo., and Toledo. Adam D. Weinberg, who organized the exhibit, describes these pictures as "on the line" between art and journalism. He tends to draw the line at the point where both art and reporting reject the cleanly composed image that makes a plain statement. These pictures make statements too, but in a more offhand language...
...awkward gestures, the uncomposed views -- can be a style in themselves when adopted deliberately. Eventually, their work legitimized photographs in which the scene could be tilted, limbs could be sliced by the edges of the frame and the mood of the main figures could be contradictory, ambiguous or just plain impenetrable...
...birthday as an opportunity for introspection. Around campus these days, people seem more concerned about where they're sitting at the Stadium gala than whether Harvard's succeeded in its educational mission. And maybe that's understandable. Why? Because what's happening this week is a party. Hardly plain and simple, but a party nonetheless...
Redford's off-duty hours and vacations turned into a blur of musty documents and marathon interviews of old people with tattered memories. The riddle of her origins, she discovered, lay in the North Carolina coastal plain around Edenton, Creswell and Columbia. Her research filled file drawers, boxes and shelves all over her house, and has finally been collected into a 350-page manuscript. What started as a digest of her own genealogy ended up being nothing less than a family tree of all the descendants of the slaves -- bearing 21 different surnames -- who once worked on one of North...