Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonders why anyone would try to cut through such semiotic superabundance for the sake of crafting a new madder metaphor. What is it about scarlet and its ilk that would simultaneously produce two completely unrelated books of photography devoted to pictorial variations on the same red object? Kenn Duncan's Red Shoes comprises 42 photos of the famous in fuchsia footgear, Kevin Clarke and Horst Wackerbarth's The Red Couch is the record of the amazing overland odyssey of twin crimson chaises through the heart of America...
...dissimulation that turns aging Nuryevs into air-bound youths, or transforms a Natalia Markarova into a Natassia Kinski. These f-stop Michaelangelos glory in sweat, stretches, and lots of straining muscle, and a big hunk of Duncan's photos are devoted to lesser known celebs for the sake of their better built bodies...
...mere coincidence that both books chose red objects as photographic themes. Red gets your attention and refuses to back down: stop signs, sunsets, the Russian flag, and fire engines are colored not for visibilities sake, but to stop action, halt movement, and freeze thought. If Santa wasn't dressed in red, how could little children believe in his omniscience? Could Superman bring truth and justice to the world if he had a yellow cape? Clearly...
Manned spaceflight for its own sake is typical of NASA's thinking, argue critics of the agency. The function of the space program, says Astronomer Sagan, is "to put people up in tin cans in earth orbit and then bring them down again. People are going up in order to ... go up. It is a capability without a mission." Concludes Sagan: "We do not have a space program, if one assumes that a program has goals and purposes...
...probably wouldn't have lived any longer without the baboon heart but now they're both dead," he says. He added that very rarely does a doctor have to make a life or death decision based on killing an animal for the sake of a human being. "Seventy million animals die every year in experiments and almost none of these deaths save the life of a human...