Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inward to the details effaces and nuances of expression. Avedon's pictures are lean, made with soft daylight and bouncelight against a white, seamless background. They are also stark because of the moment that Avedon tries to capture, as in the 1955 picture of a youthful Truman Capote. He reads the eyes of his subjects, waiting for that second when they reveal the facet of character he wants: he allows an older puffy-faced Capote to stare dully past the viewer; he confronts Igor Stravinsky eyeball to eyeball; and he has Sculptor June Leaf look through...
...odds cannot be reduced entirely; the militant Puerto Ricans who in 1950 tried to gun their way through the front door of Blair House, where Harry Truman was staying, came alarmingly close to success. Lyndon Johnson told and retold the story that during his own presidency a dozen or so men had scaled the 8-ft. White House fence and made their way up to the mansion before being apprehended...
...thought it would be fun to be in front of the camera instead of behind for a change-especially since I've said such bad things about actors," chuckled Author Truman Capote, trying to explain why he had signed up for his first movie role ever. Capote, the scriptwriter for Beat the Devil and The Innocents, will portray an eccentric, killer-minded billionaire in a Neil Simon comedy titled Murder by Death. "The movie will have more special effects than Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist combined," claimed Truman, whose co-stars will include Peter Folk, Alec Guinness...
President Truman used to say that he had never lost a moment's sleep over his decision to drop that first atomic bomb, but in the course of three decades Americans have become less certain about who their enemies are and what right the U.S. had to visit a holocaust upon the citizens of Hiroshima. At least half a dozen nations now possess the secret of nuclear destruction, and some 7,000 missiles many times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb stand ready to ravage civilization. The fact that they have not yet done so can be ascribed...
...hard to know what to make of the atomic bomb now. At the time was shocking for its power--more than 2000 tons of TNT, President truman told the world--but in retrospect, more people were killed in other bombings. It must have seemed then that every war would be conducted with atomic force, so that avoiding war was a necessity in the future--but there have been other wars, they have not used the bomb, and the world has survived. Perhaps it also seemed exciting that Americans had learned to harness the universe's elemental forces, something that...