Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of women who sampled the new machines this weekend expressed doubts about the long-term practicality of the condom dispensers. "Why are they so expensive?," they asked, "We want cheap...
...perhaps he shouldn't. During the late 1970's, at the peak of OPEC's power, the term "energy crisis" was on everyone's lips. The long lines and high prices at the gas station were painful, daily reminders that the world is running out of petroleum...
...What are your foreign policy priorities for the second term...
Whore is precisely the term the two men in the play use to describe themselves: they are not creators of films or even fans of films but enablers of films, and they pride themselves on letting projects advance or die based solely on commercial potential. Mantegna's character, so newly installed in executive splendor that his office furniture is still covered with painters' drop cloths, solemnly explains that a quarter-century in show business has given him a certain wisdom. The cardinal rule, he says, is not to accept percentages of net profit because there is never, ever...
Winogrand hated the term snapshot aesthetic, which was sometimes applied to his work, but it indicates clearly enough what enraged his critics and rallied his admirers. His conviction that mundane scenes were charged with consequence was nothing new to photography, but he pursued it to lengths that pressed uncomfortably upon an old question: Can the camera take dictation and call it poetry...