Word: striping
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...Complete strangers still come up to me and say, ‘I remember you—with the long hair and the grey pants with the black stripe on the side taking photos.’ I guess I must have only owned one pair of pants or something...
...their shows are the latest development in a process that began in 1967, when they were both introduced to a wider public in a pivotal MOMA exhibition that was entirely devoted to them and a third relative newcomer, Garry Winogrand. They were by no means artists of the same stripe, but John Szarkowski, who was then MOMA's supremely influential photo curator, rightly saw that all three were turning the practices of documentary photography, as he said simply, "toward more personal ends." What he might have said was that they were entirely discarding the conventions of that kind of photography...
...called "sister churches," but "daughter churches." And given that view of the relationship, I'm not sure ecumenism will be a major party of his legacy. The same might be true on interfaith efforts. After John Paul II had pulled together the remarkable convocation of religious leaders of every stripe at Assisi in 1986 where they prayed, in one another's presence, for peace, Cardinal Ratzinger was quoted as saying that this could not be the model...
...defining those rules, marketing them and playing subtle little games with them. In the boardroom or the law office, such rules are not flouted, never mind broken. They are nudged gently. The fold of a handkerchief in the breast pocket of a suit jacket, the width of a stripe on a shirt, a print on a pair of bright suspenders: these are the permissible talismans of individuality. Pitiful...
...this stripe in my shirt is green,” he said—it was blue—“and St. Patrick’s Day is a stupid holiday, anyway. I don’t understand it. You just drink and wear green...