Word: webb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work by Peress is typical of the pictures in this show, the best of which go well beyond the confines of illustration. Indeed, four of the photographers -- Harry Gruyaert, Alex Webb, Rio Branco and Jeff Jacobson -- are represented largely by shots that have never even accompanied a story. For one thing, many of these pictures strike a note sounded earlier by photographers like Lee Friedlander and the late Garry Winogrand, men who used the documentary approach for more personal ends. In the 1960s they discovered from snapshots (and from the groundbreaking work of Robert Frank) how the eccentricities of naive...
...course wouldn't make much difference to applicants who are still in school and still have their test-taking ability," said. Yale Law School Director of Admissions Jean K. Webb...
...prose ("No man was a match for him; no eyes, no throat, no groin safe from an assault, swift and agonizing") and the conspiratorial plotting are stock Ludlum. So is the hero, Jason Bourne. Readers of The Bourne Identity (1980) will recognize him as the cover name for David Webb, the American Orientalist who was used to lure Carlos, the international terrorist known as the Jackal...
...Webb is tricked into assuming his Bourne identity once again. His assignment this time: to track down an impostor threatening to plunge the Far East into war. The bait being dangled is Webb's equally scholarly wife Marie, who has been abducted by American agents and flown to Hong Kong, where much of the action takes place. It is all for the good of the country, though most of the way Webb and Marie find that hard to believe. So may readers. But credibility is hardly the point. Ludlum deals in male fantasies, and there are few two-fisted scribes...
...remember he's five-six," junior guard Keith Webster says. "People say, 'Spud Webb is five-five,' well, Carmen doesn't have that kind of physical talent. Carmen is slow, Carmen is small. As far as natural ability, he wasn't blessed with a lot. But he was blessed with a knowledge of the game, and he's made the most...