Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Spear's document became the basis for an exemption attached to conservation legislation in Congress that allowed development of Mt. Graham...
...genitals exposed. Prosecutors mocked the claim that the pictures had aesthetic value. But the jurors seemed to have been swayed by expert testimony that Mapplethorpe's work was indeed serious art. Summed up defense attorney H. Louis Sirkin: "There is a protection out there, and it's the greatest document ever written...
...UNCERTAIN GRACE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEBASTIAO SALGADO, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first U.S. exhibition for the Brazilian-born Salgado, a onetime economist who took up photography to document life in developing nations. Whether in a Peruvian village, an open-pit gold mine in Brazil or a refugee camp in Ethiopia, Salgado sees not just hardship, though he sees a great deal of that, but also the immemorial underpinnings of life -- tradition, community and work -- that give suffering a meaning. Through...
...some Catholic thinkers are less sanguine. The Rev. Richard McBrien, theology chairman at the University of Notre Dame, warns that the document's insistence on adherence to church teachings fails to recognize that "not all teachings are equally authoritative -- and some are wrong." And while major institutions like Notre Dame might be immune to the pressure of a conservative local bishop, McBrien says that "a right-wing bishop could move in on a smaller institution, and the board would cave in." The key question is whether the decree's ambiguous language will inspire any bishops to do just that...
...Revenue Commissioner Stephen Kidder said the document was meant to be a planning tool for cities and towns and was no way meant as a political document...