Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many Owners. Last year the Smithsonian Institution sent in experts to photograph and measure the buildings for its archaeological memory book. "Unfortunately," says Curator Robert Vogel, "the Smithsonian can offer nothing but sympathy. The mill has too many owners, and it would take an enormous amount of money to save it." Even old mill hands express little nostalgia at Amoskeag's passing. Mrs. Bertha Halde, 84, has fond memories of her girlhood days as a weaver of gingham, but she says of the destruction plan: "That's progress. The buildings are no good anyway, are they? They...
...accepted practice of launching two spacecraft to accomplish the same mission, and the construction of a third duplicate craft as a "backup," in the event of twin failure, is largely unnecessary. They recommend, however, that NASA proceed with the only planetary flight now funded and scheduled-a photographic flyby of Mars in 1969 by two Mariner spacecraft. The flights would not be redundant, the report notes, because each Mariner is scheduled to photograph a different area of the Martian surface...
...very mention of photography has long repelled serious easel painters, despite the fact that Corot, Cézanne and Manet all made use of the camera. Corot got the idea for his blurry landscapes from seeing an early silver print. Cézanne used photographs for his self-portraits. Manet painted his famed Execution of Emperor Maximilian from a news photograph...
...earnest. He started clipping magazine pictures, now carries a Pentax camera to snap his own. He likes to think of himself as a film director, casting, arranging and often creating his own characters. The Dance, for example, was inspired by a Derain painting, which was itself inspired by a photograph of off-duty soldiers in a dance hall. Somehow, after the chicken liver and the matzoh-ball soup at a family bar mitzvah, the idea for the painting jelled in Kanovitz's mind. Any resemblance to Derain-or for that matter, that particular bar mitzvah-is almost coincidental...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN called the presidential nominating convention "a photograph of the nation...