Word: printings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wait a minute, I know that look in your eye. You want me to print some of the mail I've been getting here at the Sports Cube and my responses. No way, that would be cruel to all these freshmen who confide in me as if I was Ann Landers in high Cons...
...range of issues Shahak has tackled, through action or in print, include the confiscation of land and destruction of homes belonging to Palestinians, the alleged mistreatment of prisoners by the state, and press censorship against Palestinian poets and journalists--"during the Vietnam war, Vietnam could not be mentioned by Palestinian poets in occupied territories," he says. Shahak also protests what he describes as discrimination against a group of people whose official name he translates as "Jews who are not Jews"--that is, individuals who suddenly discover from official dictates that their mother or grandmother was not Jewish, causing them...
...same time that he scores the Israeli government, however, Shahak has some strong criticism to level at the Palestinians. He is especially critical of the PLO's use of the slogan "democratic secular state," for Shahak claims the Palestinians have never defined or explained the concept in print to his satisfaction...
...Land has found a better way. His large-scale camera produces a huge negative, 102 centimeters by 203 centimeters (40 in. by 80 in.), from which an equally big print is made by the Polaroid process. Unlike other large prints that are blown up from a small negative in conventional fashion and lose sharpness in the process, the Polaroid pictures show no graininess. Also, because the image on the original negative is so huge to begin with, conventional enlargement of sections of the negative can produce microscope-like magnifications...
With a whirring of gears, a set of spools turns, unrolling a sheet of printing paper against the negative. The technicians meanwhile spread the patented Polaroid chemical reagent-a viscous mixture they call "goo"-onto both sheets simultaneously. After passing between a pair of rollers, the sandwich of photographic papers is raised, by rope and pulley, toward the ceiling. Then the sandwich is lowered to the floor, and the negative is lifted off, revealing the huge full-color print. "It's nothing but a small Polaroid process made larger," says Technician Peter Bass...