Word: snapshots
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...brought to the fantasy because I have been staring at the New York Times' endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the Senate - an extraordinary 13-paragraph exercise that takes up almost all of Sunday's editorial space. I have been studying the editorial as if it were a Polaroid snapshot, the film just exposed, still wet and murky, but with certain outlines starting to come clear...
...with Billy or Washoe or some of the other chimps, I try to change the subject." Earlier books on the subject report that some simian students are eager to join the human club. A female chimp placed a photo of herself in a pile with Eleanor Roosevelt but a snapshot of her own father with the four-legged beasts. A chimp with a degree in Yerkish or Ameslan exhibits the ability to form concepts from his store of word symbols. The Indian who called a gun a "fire stick" or the remote tribe who named an airplane "steam chicken" seems...
...York hotel clerk who betrays visiting Eastern European guests to their native apparatchiks. This deed over, Levanter privately gloats because authorities cannot discover a plot linking killer and victim. As he does so, the murder is already fading from memory: "It was nothing but an old Polaroid snapshot; no negative, photographer unknown, camera thrown away...
...since their arrival on Mars snapping pictures of the Red Planet. The latest batch includes the best and most revealing shots yet. Among the pictures released by NASA: a photomosaic of the planet's north pole, showing a concentric pattern of striations in the ice cap; a color snapshot showing newly formed frost on the ground near the feet of the dust-covered Viking 2 lander; and a photo proving that something-wind, a tremor, a frost heave-has caused a portion of the Martian surface to slump since it was photographed last October. The most spectacular shot...
...group stood in the sunlight as a friend captured the moment with a snapshot...