Word: snapshotted
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...nothing else, Five Lives is valuable as a snapshot of what Harvard life was like in the late sixties, before the advent of political activism. Harvard was more a confirmation of the past than a confrontation with the future. Now that the fires of politics are banked, this may again be true...
...daisy placed in a real flower pot. Also on the bureau are hairspray and perfume bottles, 3 bottles of pills, a bottle of nail polish, a container of Finast black pepper, and a large cylinder of Diamond Crystal salt. There's also a blue china dinner plate with a snapshot of a baby on it. As I'm looking at it, Lary Ann returns...
...shaving mirror . . ." The bleary-eyed moment of evil temper is caught with acid precision in an image as transitory as the mood itself. The quick, scrubby notations for nose and cheek bone and wiry corncob hair compose themselves around the black hole of a mouth; it is calligraphy as snapshot...
...lesser item, Variety Obit, is a kind of songs-and-patter snapshot history of the U.S. from the Puritans to the present as recorded by a vaudeville clan. While the music by Mel Marvin is pleasant and the lyrics by Bob Satuloff are plaintively evocative, the retrospective vision does not cohere...
Clunky Boots. Mills first heard of O'Sullivan when the would-be star wrote him a letter two years ago. O'Sullivan included a "demo" record and a snapshot, and it was the photo that particularly intrigued Mills. Peering out from under fierce Irish eyebrows and a flat cap was a thin-faced youth garbed in short trousers, waistcoat, athletic socks and huge clunky boots. "I couldn't believe it," recalls Mills. "He looked like a young Charlie Chaplin." As it turned out, it was a getup that O'Sullivan had cannily contrived to draw attention...