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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disorder. Even the most coolly-pictured scenes convey a sharp sense of the photographer's elation in the face of his medium's immense range, its omnivorousness. Consider, as a final example, James Bodo's color photograph showing a "Putt-Putt" miniature car raceway, empty and sheeted in snow. It is difficult to look hard at such a picture without being overtaken by a sudden, intimate, desolating sense of the particular strangeness and beauty of 20th-century civilization, and without realizing simultaneously that this exact, simple configuration of forms--the vista of T-shaped streetlamps, icicles on an orange iron...

Author: By Larry Shapiro, | Title: Refinements of Reality | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

WORCESTER, Mass.--You had to figure it would end some bizarre way. A game that saw a total of 21 walks by two pitching staffs, a hitting record for Holy Cross shortstop Ronnie Perry, snow flurries in the sixth inning, and more sacrifice attempts than a prehistoric religious sect couldn't end in a routing fashion...

Author: By David A. Wilson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crusaders Nip Crimson, 6-5, On Walks, Ninth Inning Error | 4/23/1980 | See Source »

...actors are assembled from a broad pool. One man is a superintendent of a Bronx apartment house; one voice that sings "Reach out" belongs to Phoebe Snow; there is a kid much in demand because he had his front teeth extracted when he was 2½. There is also a serious actress: "I won't do those brutal pesticides that poison the environment, and I won't do douches ... You might say that my standards are basically political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Words from a Sponsor | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...snow has thawed, the name

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Notes of a Very Young Man | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...dazzled by some of the most spectacular big-league nature found anywhere. With Puget Sound on one side and Lake Washington on the other, the city is a panorama of pleasure boaters, skyscrapers, the 1962 World's Fair Space Needle and, looming 60 miles to the southeast, the snow-peaked volcanic cone of Mount Rainier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masters of the Air | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

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