Word: stan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That kind of involvement requires a special temperament Occasionally photographers are a little crazy, and almost always they are obsessed. Often too they are pushy and, by some stan-lards, obnoxious. Freelancer Matthew Naythons was so upset by the conduct of his colleagues during Rosalynn Carter's 1979 visit to refugee camps in Thailand that he simply abandoned the assignment. "The conduct of the photographers was morally reprehensible, he recalls with anger. "They were literally trampling dying babies to get better shots." Frequently, however, they are also brave and daring, in an old-fashioned way that is rare nowadays...
...STAN BARANCZAK and Mark Fusco will drink a toast, While Garry Trudeau leads a Richard Pipes roast. Brian Byrne, Stacy Campbell and fair Aglaia Senese Each at 14 Plympton will renew their lease. Saul Chafin and Steve Verr will elbows bend To down a glass at their lawsuit's end. Tis a season of mistletoe, turkey and slush For Czeslaw Milosz, Fred Jewett and preppy George Bush. Don Fleming, the cager and evolving Steve Gould, But not Joe Duarte, whose regime will be fooled. Adam Ulam, Ron Erhardt, and talkative Ed Reischauer Gaye Williams, the Space Shuttle and the diamond...
Whether in the pro ring or on the Harvard mat, wrestlers engage in their own version of physical combat. What ultimately distinguishes the genuine from the absurd is that while Stan "Heart-punch" Staziak bloodies the ring with his ludicrous antics, the Crimson wrestlers use their mat as if it were a canvas, worthy of easel and brush...
...danced through hit Broadway shows for a dozen years before Adele's marriage to an English lord, but to a movie mogul their stage success could be attributed to snob appeal and second-balcony myopia. In close-up Fred looked-and, in moments of earthbound repose, acted-like Stan Laurel. Thus the famous pronouncement on Astaire's first screen test...
...Stan Strickland--the Western Front...