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...swarm of artistically minded boomers who matured in the 1970s, there were thousands who hoped to become filmmakers or photographers. Many of the photographers--working with sophisticated cameras that can produce an occasional striking image almost without human intervention--won a brief success. But three successive decades have drastically winnowed their numbers, and only a few now stand in the ranks of mastery that include such predecessors as Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans...
...home schooling exhibition at a Denver Holiday Inn, a 5000-strong confab of parents, children and education experts who got together to purchase curriculum, take seminars and talk shop. My first lesson: these people rise with the sun. When I arrived at 7:30 am on Saturday morning, a swarm of parents had already staked out the still-shuttered exhibition hall. When they finally opened the gates and I scanned the panoply of products now geared for home schoolers, I realized why they allowed the extra time. You name it, you could buy it: day-by-day lessons from kindergarten...
...than a corporate employee of the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company. "Welcome to Sex City - Hope You Brought Cash" was the title of the magazine article in which an economist estimates that nudie bars generate greater economic impact than the Braves, Falcons and Hawks professional sports teams combined. "Conventioneers swarm to the Atlanta strip clubs because no matter where they live they probably don't have this honored combination of nude dancing and alcohol," says attorney Alan Begner, who represents nearly half of Atlanta's 41 strip bars. He and others estimate that 50 percent of the clubs' clientele...
...abduction: "I hate them. I hate them a thousand times. I hate them for what they are doing to us ... to our families ... our parents ... for everything they have taken away from us. I hate them because time is so precious. I hate them for the flies that swarm all over us. I hate them because they have taken our freedom. I hate them because they are doing all this in the name of God. I pray that God will forgive them because I cannot...
...Thousands swarm the Boston Commons calling for an end to public school segregation...