Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern experts try to envelop their trade with the accouterments of more exact sciences, strive to test problematic works with a chemist's lofty calm. Some refuse to see the picture itself, arguing that an emotional response may confuse their judgment, and rely on analysis of paint and photographic blowups that show telltale idiosyncracies of style. Others claim such infallibility that they authenticate paintings just by inspecting a black-and-white photograph. Last week such arrogance was called to account...
...trial, Art Historian Réau admitted that he had authenticated a Fragonard on the basis of a photograph. This was current procedure, he pleaded. Snapped the public prosecutor: "When Réau and Cordovado betray their mission to protect the public, which is their moral duty, we have a twilight of the art critic gods...
...Bridge ("Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it"), he uses a mannered but often effective device of 117 very short chapters, each concerned with a single episode, often a single glancing thought or aspiration. The reader, in effect, leafs through a verbal photograph album, ranging from an eleven-line snapshot of Mrs. Bridge finding her small son staring meditatively at the dressmaker's dummy of her figure (thereafter, she hides it in the attic) to a seven-page description of a country-club dinner that is as savagely tedious as anything...
...have just read your Nov. 24 story on "The Vanishing Geisha." Possibly Tokyo's 600 geisha are all aged; however, I assure you that there are as many geisha as before the war, both young and aged. I enclose a photograph which shows one youngster, now eleven, who will become a fourth-generation geisha. In training since the sixth month and sixth day of her sixth year, she received the right to her dance teacher's name (Onoe) a few months...
THERE'S nothing new to photograph," the AEC said. But Associate Editor Alvin Josephy persisted, visited unclassified laboratories and plants from Massachusetts to California, proved there was plenty going on that had not been seen before. Convinced, the AEC provided clearances for Photographer Jerry Cooke, even volunteered guidance to the U.S.'s most important centers of atomic research and development. The result, despite problems of security ("Don't look at anything on that table, point your camera straight down this aisle") and radiation hazards ("You can stay in this room only 50 seconds"), are first pictures...