Word: witnesse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seven years have passed since the Viet Nam memorial was dedicated in Washington. Seven years since the heated, at times ugly, controversy that swirled around the design and its designer seemed to evaporate, in an instant, once the nation could witness for itself the overwhelming effect those two walls of...
"We have come here to witness a historic event," said West German diplomat Andreas Zobel.
So did television. On the Viet Nam battle field, news photography finally ceded immediacy to its rival. Could picture taking, no longer history's first witness, ever again be more than stenography? Eddie Adams, Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin and Larry Burrows, among others, answered yes, as they found the...
All who have recourse to the Blodgett Pool are aware of my frequent presence. Most change lanes when they witness my wide-angled progress and tortoise-rate speed. On my part, nothing has troubled me less than sharing the pool with the young women who arrive with their even more...
Seeing is also a subject that Cliff Stern (Woody Allen) takes seriously. A documentary filmmaker, he is driven not by God but by the demands of an unyielding conscience to make his camera -- his eye -- bear witness to the inequities of his careless time.