Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Klein worked with a locomotive verve and an indifference to the holy writ of camera technique. At a time when the nondistorting 50-mm lens (the kind that is still standard on most 35-mm cameras) was deemed the only fit instrument for recording truth, Klein used a wide angle to collect as much incident as possible within the frame. He favored a flash at long exposure, for its jittery harshness. He also went in for blurred images: smudged bodies in motion, heads so close to the lens that they dissolve into gaseous globes. The archetypal Klein photo is Minigang...
...century earlier in his paintings, Klein recognized in the suspended gaze one of the chief signifiers of the modern temper. But judged by the canons of good photography, those pictures looked fumbled, invertebrate. Klein's anarchic strengths went unappreciated by eyes looking for nice tonal gradations and the standard ironies. Where were the compositional ligaments that held even the airiest Andre Kertesz photo in an iron fist? Where was the fine printing? For that matter, where was the subject...
...rate of debt expansion is substantially slowed soon, the total amount of the obligations will continue to increase to even more formidable levels. The costs of making payments on the debt will increase dramatically into the 1990s, leading to a significant slowdown in improvements in the U.S. standard of living...
...most part, the acting is of a high standard. Here is an example of fine ensemble acting, and the cast seems to have a heck of a good time along the way. Especially notable are David Schrag's portrayal of Hugo, the snide and arrogant eldest son; Bill Salloway as the confused but moral police inspector who tries to sort out the Charles family; and Donal Logue as the "Buddhist skinhead" and youngest son. Donald Carleton plays the wise-cracking butler, and despite his occasionally stilted delivery he often brings down the house because Idle has given him the best...
...remarks, but it soon became clear that although this was Jazz for Life, the music wasn't really jazz. The Jazz Band finished its set before everyone had made it to their seats and jazz-tinged versions of pop tunes--like Van Morrison's Moondance--were the night's standard fare...