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...output were larger in scope than Riis'. He was the first American to produce, with a camera, a fully sustained body of images that made people look back beyond the product to the men, women and children who had made it. His photographs altered the meaning of the verb to work as profoundly as Mathew Brady's had changed that of the verb to fight. On March 12 a retrospective of 220 photographs entitled "America & Lewis Hine," organized by Naomi and Walter Rosenblum, opened at the Brooklyn Museum. It is an exemplary show, and a major event...
...couldn't make the Alpine team as a freshman," Rand said, "and I wanted to try jumping. Little did I know they'd (I can't read my writing, but it's a four-letter verb. Fill in the blank yourself) me into it as soon as I put on skis...
...emotion or vividness to the dimension of a description. They are often onomatopoeic, but convey aspects that are not necessarily associated with sounds, especially in English--such as manner, color, taste, smell, silence, action, condition, texture, gait, posture or intensity. To students of theoretical syntax, the serial verb construction found primarily in certain West African languages is of great interest. There exist many other interesting aspects of the languages of Africa, that are most instructive and worthwhile to philologists and objective students of humanistic learning...
...Many of the new words, according to the O.E.D., first appeared in TIME, including "nudism" (1929), "minicrisis" (1971) and the verb to "Jeep...
...soot on warts," is elementary to an OuLiPo member. Perec has produced Ou LiPo's longest palindrome: a 5,000-letter treatise-on palindromes. Other OuLiPoian inventions are equally astonishing. Poet Jean Lescure's N (or V) +7 formula takes the noun or verb of a given text and replaces it with the seventh of the following nouns (or verbs) in any given dictionary. In the February issue of Scientific American, Columnist Martin Gardner, an OuLiPo fan converts the opening two lines of Moby Dick into: "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago-never mind how long precisely-having...