Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the people in these pictures do hard physical labor, working in mines, on ranches and in slaughterhouses. Some have tumbled into the abyss: prisoners, mental patients or that hapless segment that Avedon labels simply as "drifter." All of them, from secretaries to millworkers, live in a very different West from the pristine territories of the landscape photographers. Theirs is a place of trials and disappointments, and their faces specify every cent of the cost...
Westmoreland had been in charge of ground operations and tactical air support in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In January of 1982, he brought a libel suit against CBS for what he claimed was a misrepresentative portrayal of him in a "60 Minutes" segment on the Vietnam War. Earlier this year, Westmoreland withdrew the suit...
Yaffe said that "only four things in the show are from designers" and that students could afford "most of the clothes shown." Even the segment of the show featuring "fun furs" showcased outfits that the average Harvard student could manage, she said...
...producer's job is to synthesize the facts and images gathered by the reporters into the segment that appears on the news, Cohen says. In that process, decisions have to be made about what are the best images in order "to get people interested in the story," he says...
Pete Townshend of the Who was exceptionally hard on guitars. Now, at 40, he proves to be tough on the autobiographical form as well. Horse's Neck is a sort of album, words without music, consisting of 13 impressionistic pieces drawn from the author's life and times. Each segment sounds a theme: youthful rebellion, sexual obsession, the burden of celebrity, self-realization (once known as growing...