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...subject, while forgoing the pretensions of photojournalism. The grass becomes an abstract background on which the boys float, frolicking with a disarming intensity. There is very little visual context in the photograph, but it is this abandonment of documentary principles that makes it so appealing. The spatter and strew of the grasses is absorbing and positively disorienting, a visual compliment to the boys’ joyful ecstasy and a testament to Rockefeller’s artistic acuity.Sadly, the exhibit fizzles before its narrative climax. Here, at the beginning of the war scenes, Rockefeller distances himself physically and psychologically from...

Author: By Jeremy S. Singer-vine, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Peabody Rediscovers Images of New Guinea | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...strew mathematics professors and long-division worksheets in the path of my students and millions of others who only in the past decade have been offered a glimpse of math classrooms in which they can honestly perceive themselves as thinkers, as problem-solvers, and as active participants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

Coming from small-town Wisconsin, I have long lived on the assumption that I can strew cash about my room, prop the door open and still sleep soundly, knowing I am safe. In fact, that is exactly what my brother used to do back home. And let me tell you, it was great. Whenever I needed some extra change, I could just go borrow some from his carpet. (Of course, I always paid the carpet back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...exotic investments strew wreckage across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

...Surat roughly one half of the 12.5 million population lives in shantytowns outside city sanitation control. In addition, a ten foot monsoon flood in August strew sewage everywhere...

Author: By Zoe Argento, | Title: Rebirth of the PLAGUE | 10/4/1994 | See Source »

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