Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marines planting the Stars and Stripes on the summit of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on Iwo Jima. Three of the marines were later killed on Iwo; the three who survived became national heroes. But one of the survivors, a Pima Indian named Ira Hayes, was killed by that snapshot as surely, if not as swiftly, as by a bullet...
...them were embarrassingly bad. E. M. Forster predicted his decline as early as Dodsworth; in an essay on Lewis called "A Camera Man," he wrote: "Photography is a pursuit for the young. So long as a writer has the freshness of youth on him, he can work the snapshot method, but when it passes he has nothing to fall back upon. It is here that he differs from the artist...
...frightfully adorable snapshot of little Adolf in rompers...
Like Daumier, Yeats was a master of the candid snapshot (see color), but unlike Daumier, he was not out to scourge the human race. By the time he painted The Horse Lover in 1930, his technique was loose, almost wild. The brush often surrendered to the palette knife; flat statement gave way to poetic suggestion; line and color broke and quivered with emotion. "Yeats," said Austrian Painter Oskar Kokoschka on hearing of the Waddington exhibition, "was an outsider who did not follow or belong to any school. All his work bears the mark of fantastic imagination and individuality...
...Brinkley cannily secured a license to operate a powerful radio station, KFKB (for "Kansas First, Kansas Best"). Taking the air between concerts by hillbilly bands and sessions by the "Tell Me a Story Lady," Brinkley read sermons, pitched hard for goat glands, and made "snapshot diagnoses" of the ailments of his correspondents. "Now here is a letter from a dear mother," he would croon, "a dear little mother who holds to her breast a babe of nine months. She should take Number 2 and Number 16 and-yes-Number 17 and she will be helped." Brinkley got $1 a bottle...