Word: scarfed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Look at that," I said to my wife. "The poor guy was so nervous that he forgot to take off his scarf when he came in. He's probably going to end up thanking the wrong wife in his acceptance speech...
...eight years later, I was watching the Oscars on television, when someone who had just won for Best Screenplay went up to collect his Oscar wearing a white silk scarf around his neck...
Throughout the protest, pedestrians slowed as they approached the shackled Adams, who wore a blue hat, a tan scarf and a yellow carnation...
...pictures that mark the beginning of DeCarava's best work, most of which dates from the 1950s and '60s. His street pictures speak in the international language of the snapshot aesthetic. Figures are cut by the edges of the frame. Serendipitous little details, like the windblown edge of a scarf, take on large but ambiguous meaning. But because DeCarava is black, or because his subjects are, those same details can take on additional layers of ambiguity. Look at the wedge of sunlight that hems in the girl in his 1949 picture Graduation. Because of the way it seems to guide...
...first year's winter (the year Boston received 80-some inches of snow), my starry eyes reflected the snowy pavements. I loved the thought of seasons. Until the snow stayed. And stayed. And the weather dropped below zero. And the prospect of putting on a sweater, coat, gloves, scarf and hat merely to go outside made me never want to leave my dorm again...