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...Chapman '94, a photographer, began herRadcliffe Oration by snapping a Polaroid of theClass Day audience. With its awed tourists andperpetually clicking cameras, Harvard had seemedto make her life meaningful "just by livingthere," she said...
Somewhere in northern Haiti: a lone human-rights worker sifts through a stack of Polaroid pictures. Photos of men beaten so badly that chunks of flesh are missing from their buttocks. Pregnant women with deep bruises on their bellies. Young girls gone vacant-eyed after rape. The pictures, the man says, are proof of brutal government repression in Haiti, in this case the coastal city of Gonaives, against supporters of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the President ousted in a 1991 military coup...
...guards, says that from 1987 until early 1993, his clients saw Jackson bring 30 to 40 boys between the ages of 9 and 14 to his quarters in the middle of the night. According to the suit, Jackson personally ordered one guard to recover and destroy a Polaroid of a naked boy from Jackson's private bathroom. The guard followed instructions and retrieved the photograph, which he says depicted a young teenager in profile revealing his genitals and buttocks. Says Mathews: "In addition to what they did in his private suite, Michael frequently took the boys to the jacuzzi...
...economy was growing at a little more than 2% a year. By the end of 1963, the growth rate was nearly 6%. He came to office in the days of carbon paper, mimeograph machines and flashbulbs. Three years later, jet airliners, interstate highways, direct long-distance telephone dialing, and Polaroid cameras were speeding up people and life. New things and words were appearing almost every day: ZIP codes, Weight Watchers, Valium, transistors, computers, lasers, the Pill...
Atwood, an engineer at Polaroid who formerly worked at IBM, said he had seen photos of cross-legged men floating in the air--levitating. He said he believes the photos are created by meditation advocates who put a cross-legged person on a mattress. As the person bounces higher and higher on the mattress, a high-shutter speed photo captures the action, making the person appear suspended in the air. Atwood also said he recollected reading an article in Time Magazine that described the effect...