Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find Don Leonardo finishing his new house. He covers the adobe with a mixture of sand and lime, making the walls white and smooth. The doors and windows are trimmed in bright blue. You ask him, as president of the town, what he thinks of the Mexican government. Smiling, he shrugs his shoulders. "Well, Senorita, Echeverria--he is not a bad man; but he does nothing for the campesino. The rich men have money and they pay him and, well--so he can afford to do nothing...
...raging sandstorm, but inside the tent the negotiating continued. At one point, Yariv walked over to the Israeli tent within the U.N. compound, to telephone Jerusalem. Later, both Yariv and Gamasi meandered out of the U.N. tent and talked earnestly together for a long time, as clouds of desert sand swirled around them. Finally, the conference ended with the terse announcement that the talks would continue the next...
...cars to be remaindered. Their loss to the nation would in a sense be a measure of the boy's unfulfilled responsibility, a symbol of his removal from the social machinery. His capacity to do good for his fellow citizens was as fleeting as the tire tracks on the sand. Foul though it was, he loved the car and sought some sort of integrity in its final purposes...
...several cases, Nixon's own hand has been on the wrecking bar, his own fingerprints' on the press-ruining bucket of sand. When the Boston Globe's Tom Oliphant was indicted for covering a mercy drop at Wounded Knee, I asked deputy press secretary Gerald Warren whether Nixon was aware of what was going on. Unequivocally, for a change, Warren said "yes." Thus it was the president himself who approved the dragging out of that reckless case until finally even the Justice Department had to wipe the indictment off its books. Nixon's trophy: agony for Tom Oliphant...
...records it. In the 134 years since the invention of photography, the photographer has changed what he photographs. In a 1914 palladium print of a beach scene, the photographer has showing off his medium and his process's capacity for detail by cramming as many bathing-beauties and sand castles and rotting rowboats into the scene as possible. But in a 1972 print of the same technique, the photographer no longer shows off, he studies. In this case it is nature that he examines, an intricate detail of a small bunch of crocuses...