Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they accompany. For the last issue of TIME every year, however, the Picture Department undertakes a very different assignment: creating the special section called Images, a portfolio of the year's best photographs. The pictures are chosen not to be helpful supplements to the news, but as superb visual representations in their own right that have the power to convey the sense or mood of an entire story...
Bentkowski sums up the total effect of the section: "A photograph, being immediate and specific, theoretically cannot be an abstraction. But these pictures, combined with our visual memories of events from magazines, newspapers and TV, take on the power of abstraction. They tell, in capsule, the story of 1983, a year brilliantly seen through the camera's lens, thanks to the skill-even the genius-of the photographers who took them...
...King of Nepal, Birenda Bir Bikram Shah Dev, climaxed his day-long visit to Harvard last night by attending an exhibition on Nepalese urban restoration at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts...
...exhibition, including a slide show narrated by Hooker Professor of Visual Arts Edward F. Sekler, focused on attempts by the United Nations and Birenda's government to preserve an ancient and historic square in the city of Patan, Nepal. The square is endangered by traffic and construction...
...must be recognized that this situation is almost unique in history, and that therefore many national sovereignty "rules" don't necessarily apply. Sufficient conditions for Israeli monitoring and control of the Jordan River area would include the following: 1)Forward observation posts, both visual and electronic on the Jordan River itself and on strategic high ground throughout the West Bank. These stations would be manned by Israeli soldiers, who would be guaranteed free passage to and from the border. 2)Maintenance of open and adequate communications and transportation routes for Israeli tank forces throughout the West Bank. These roads would...