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...quick-draw justice played well on the 11 o'clock news. For off-duty Barfers, machismo was the drug of choice. One officer ignored his wife's plea to wear a bulletproof vest because his buddies might laugh. Another pasted a coroner's snapshot of a riddled body in his scrapbook. "Think of it," muses the author, "ten little hardball lawmen, shooting down Mexican bandits where they stand, out there in the cactus and rocks and tarantulas and scorpions ... If that wasn't a John Ford scenario, what the hell...
They would not go away, those pushy women circling the Plaza de Mayo silently, as if under water, photographs of their sons, daughters and husbands swinging on chains from their necks like good-luck charms. Sometimes the women would bear the photographs on placards; sometimes they would hold a snapshot delicately out in front of them between the index finger and the thumb, presenting unassailable proof to anyone who cared to look that the subject of the picture did, at one time, exist. Every Thursday the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo performed their half-hour ritual across the street from...
...background. Hitcheock used sly tricks to make his audience feel like voyeurs: Fosse flatly hits you with the accusation that there is a little of Snider in all of us, that given a choice between a picture of Dorothy and the real thing, you'll take the snapshot, and make her into an object of your slavering fantasies, judging her only against Playboy's photo ideal of the perfectly formed "girl next door." Many tribal groups refuse to have their pictures taken, believing that the photographer captures the subject's soul along with the image. Fosse implies that you replace...
PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE NEVER been part of a Harvard application. Instead, the admissions office has always relied on alumni interviews for an objective snapshot--in words--of each of the more than 12,000 students who apply to the College each year. More than 4000 veterans of the Harvard admissions process annually volunteer their services to the office, interviewing candidates in their home towns and passing on their impressions to Cambridge. In the past, the form provided for interviewers to fill out about each candidate has suggested that interviewers should only relay their general impressions about a candidate...
...Edwin H. Land, 40, Polaroid's black haired, bright-eyed president, could thank his ten-year-old daughter Jennifer for the idea for his new camera. Several years ago, when he took a snapshot of Jeffie, she demanded to know why she couldn't have a print right away. That got him thinking about a camera that would have a "built-in darkroom," and he developed one that printed 3 by 5 photos that were simply peeled off the negative...