Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shop and Swim...
Jacobs's radio has provided, on at least one occasion, the only surviving contact with a Latin American nation. After the 1964 revolution in Bolivia, the new government closed all the cable offices and grounded all planes. But the three American television networks set up temporary shop in the home of a ham in Jacobs's Latin American network. Their dispatches were pumped into Brookline, and Jacobs graciously handed them over to the waiting newsmen...
...hero is a Spanish immigrant slaughterhouse worker who looks back on "seven years of sleepwalking from urinal to urinal. Seven years of unconsciousness, of being half asleep and idiotic and happy ... in this limbo of progressive idiocy . . . Mary's blue mantle hangs in the window of the antique shop and there is a glass eye that bleeds every Friday when actresses get divorced . . . but the fishermen no longer go to the Seine, because all they find at the end of their lines are sexless human corpses...
...restless," writes Parks, and he tried everything. In 1937, after seeing a collection of dust-bowl pictures by Carl Mydans, Walker Evans and Ben Shahn (who in those days was a photographer as well as a painter), Parks decided to try photography. He hustled to a downtown Seattle hock shop, bought a $12.50 Voigtlander camera, spent half an hour learning how to use the thing, then began shooting everything that crossed his path. So intent was he that he fell into Puget Sound while trying to photograph sea gulls...
...dinner, they have this year as in the past been a forum for editors, reporters and publishers to talk some aspects of shop. These dinners are actually the only time that the Nieman program comes close to resembling a trade school. This aspect of Nieman deserves attention, and obviously some speakers are better (or worse) than others, but it is hardly the tail which wags...