Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strange pictures: deadpan but not flippant, ironic but not campy. They ( used advanced elements of photographic language -- extreme distance from the subject, unemphatic treatment, carefully achieved but understated color -- but to pose what questions? Not until the Houston show, assembled by Curator Anne W. Tucker, were Sternfeld's purposes really clear. The title American Prospects, which applies to both the show and an accompanying volume of his work (Times Books; $40), points to Sternfeld's ambition for his work to be placed in the line of two other great photo essays on the national mood: Walker Evans' American Photographs...
...usual argument against the concentration goes something like this perhaps women have been slighted in the treatment of various established academic disciplines, and perhaps these fields ought to give greater weight to women's views and issues. However, women's views and issues should not be treated as an independent field because, while it offers new approaches to existing disciplines, the function of Women's Studies is more one of criticism than of innovation...
...mild stiffening of limbs and the tremors that mark the onset of Parkinson's disease. Then came the gradual loss of muscle control, leaving them prisoners in their own bodies -- mentally lucid but physically unable to eat, urinate or comb their hair without assistance. Levodopa, the most common treatment for the debilitating illness, had ceased to work for one man and could not be tolerated by the other. Nor were other drugs of use. Facing further deterioration, the two agreed to become guinea pigs in a remarkable experiment conducted at La Raza Medical Center in Mexico City and reported...
Organizers agree that the March party was different from a private party. Decorations provided by the charity--banners and balloons as well as posters of children in treatment for the disease, with needles in their abdomens--were visible throughout the room, Ali says. Invitations included information about the disease, which affects about 3000 children in America. Slightly high ticket prices, four and six dollars, reflected the donation to charity, the sophomore adds...
...certain amount of glee in reading about rich innocents abroad who retained Berenson as an art consultant without knowing the extent of his ties to Duveen and other dealers. If the "squillionaires," as Berenson called them, did not always get what they paid for, they at least got royal treatment...