Word: avoiding
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...that the subject is a more-than-reluctant participant. Ever since Capa-whose name survives in the most prestigious prize for combat photographers, the Capa Gold Medal-it has been the mark of a great war photographer that one wonders how he could possibly have gotten close enough to avoid the same fate as his subject...
...brief but insightful introduction, Luc Sante points out that it does feel almost obscene to see hundreds of deaths packaged so elegantly. "Maybe we expect that the photographer faced with grief, trauma or starvation will be rendered incompetent by the sight,'' Sante muses. Nachtwey's work, however, manages to avoid the luridness of a snuff film by being laced with sympathy. There is no doubt in flipping through these photographs that they are taken with the utmost concern for the afflicted, that they are taken, as Nachtwey says in his afterword, as "an appeal to the reader's best instincts...
...Most experts agree that to truly save Social Security, something politically uncomfortable will have to be done, whether it's raising payroll taxes, cutting benefits or raising the age of eligibility. Bush has already promised no new payroll taxes; Gore's hoping to avoid all three. Despite the sudden emergence of a serious election-year debate on a very big issue, there's still a lot of parts of the puzzle no one wants to talk about...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't want to have to go out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
While following in the footsteps of these former millions, the Million Mom March has managed to avoid much of their malaise. In fact, the moms might be the first marchers who can legitimately claim a million marchers; approximately 750,000 on the Washington Mall last Sunday, and hundreds of thousands more participating in similar marches all around the country...