Word: personality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...metal sheets, glass plates, celluloid spools and other light-sensitive surfaces exposed to history in the name of publishing, only a handful of images have themselves become part of history. These form a sort of shared visual heritage for the human race, a treasury of significant memories. Every educated person should be familiar with them, just as he or she would know the great achievements of painting, sculpture or music. And every person, educated or not, should be moved by these journalistic images, just as he or she would be by the masterpieces...
Such speculation is unlikely to be fruitful. On the other hand, by looking at one specific person's reaction to the two main events, we might figure something out. Let's try President Bush...
...instantly simpatico to many of her customers. When she makes appearances at department stores, Karan acts like a wise older sister dispensing fashion tips and helping customers assemble her clothes into outfits. Says Karan, as she twirls her oversize black eyeglasses: "I am accessible. I see myself as a person who stays up all night and worries about her daughter ((Gaby, 15)) and her husband, and would like to get the carpeting ordered...
Later Huseynov pulls a stack of photographs from a folder and asks a visitor, "Are you a strong person?" The photos show a male corpse that has been beaten and maimed. Small twigs poke out of sockets that once contained eyes. The body bears a gash from groin to throat, apparently made to kill the victim by disemboweling him. "This was in the village of Masis," says ; Huseynov, referring to a town in central Armenia. "I can show you his death certificate if you want...
...wreck Panama's economy (as we have done), we may support a coup, we may even rain bombs on Panama City (though no one is suggesting that). The one thing we cannot do is take him out on purpose. Executive Order 12333, issued by Ronald Reagan, says, "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination." The Bush people claim that this standing order even made it hard for the U.S. to aid the recent coup because someone might have spontaneously shot the general, though that...