Word: show
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...F.S.L.N. lined up on the steps of a church. "Do you approve of these men as your representatives?" bellowed a Sandinista commander dressed in combat fatigues to the thousands assembled in the plaza below. "If you give them your vote, raise your hands." After an almost unanimous show of hands, the five were sworn in as the city's Municipal Reconstruction Junta, "in the name of the heroes and martyrs fallen in the fight for the liberty of Nicaragua...
...them 53? a day to scramble up bamboo scaffolding and help refurbish the city's many stately but decaying Victorian office buildings. There are even special catch-up courses for young people. At the Xiang Ming Middle School, near Shanghai's old French Concession, former Red Guards show up each night to resume their interrupted education. Says School Principal Jiang Xiang: "In our discussions there can be different opinions. They can even admire the countries in Europe and America. We insist only that they take the socialist road...
...light. His hands, swollen from arthritis, hardened by decades of immersion in darkroom chemicals, skitter over the keys, assaulting the same phrase again and again. "Damn," he says, "I've lost it." But not altogether. Once you have practiced to concert discipline, even 50 years ago, the traces still show. "There used to be a relationship between my piano and my photography," says Ansel Adams. "I guess it's one-sided...
...made a pilgrimage to his New York gallery, An American Place, in 1933. There was a terrifying hour of silence; Stieglitz inspected the prints while his visitor writhed on a steam radiator, there being nowhere else to sit. Stieglitz gave Adams his benediction and, three years later, his first show. Stieglitz appeared to him (as to many other American artists, including Georgia O'Keeffe, whom Stieglitz married) as a father confessor of unfailing probity. "I am perplexed, amazed and touched at the impact of his force on my own spirit," he wrote to Strand. "I would not believe before...
...isolate Adams' contribution to the language of photography, the show at MOMA concentrates on his landscapes. (The only human artifact in the exhibit is a low stone wall in front of an early view of Yosemite Valley.) The show enables one to see Adams' early and late prints from the same negative, and the difference is interesting. The early ones are of ravishing delicacy; they have a subtlety of discrimination, a continuity of surface tone that are essentially lyric. But by middle age, Adams' work began to shift. In the darkroom, he was conducting from the negative's score?pushing...