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HALSMAN: I always compare photography with writing. There was a time when only a few could read and write. If one wanted to write a letter one had to go to the public scribe. Now everybody can read and write. Yet we still have professional writers, but we have then because they are artists or because they have something to say. The analogy with photography is complete. There was a time when only the professional photographer could produce photographs. Now practically everyone can photograph. Yet we will still need professional photographers who are artists or who have something...
...ONLY DIFFERENCE between bubblegum cards and most sports biographies is that after the season is over the cards can still be used as spoke attachments to give your bicycle a motorcycle inflection. Both genres rely on dry statistics, a boring anecdote and a posed glossy; although the sports scribe includes an over-abundance of all three items to pad his thin research...
...libretto was a piece of hack work from a Parisian scenario factory run by an enterprising auteur of sorts named Eugene Scribe. Having just successfully completed Rigoletto and La Traviata with Italian Librettist Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi despised the messy French text with the passion he brought to everything...
...dollars, which any layman can understand. Not so with medicine. The cliché has it that medicine is as much art as science. Granted, the art part is in tangible and immeasurable. But much of the science part of medicine remains largely hit or miss. One doctor will pre scribe twice as much of a potent antibiotic as another, or prescribe a needlessly dangerous drug. One surgeon will hurry to operate, while another will say, "This child will outgrow the problem," and spare the knife...
Scrutable Scribe...