Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Competing Objects. The most powerful New York picture is not of the city. Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother shows two proud, exhausted people as they might have landed at Ellis Island. It was painted, however, from an old snapshot and memory; Gorky's mother died of starvation In Soviet Armenia after the family had fled the Turkish massacre. Gorky remained obsessed by the tragedy all his life. In the years before he hanged himself in 1948, he painted abstract reveries from his past like Garden in Sochi...
After years of doing battle in separate though similar technological arenas, the two titans of the U.S. photography market finally meet in the same ring this week. Eastman Kodak Co., which fathered the snapshot almost a century ago, will show off to the press its new line of instant-picture cameras, thus offering Polaroid Corp. its first serious competition* since Edwin Land brought out the Polaroid Land Camera nearly three decades ago and ushered in the instant-photography...
George W. Sigular, assistant to the Treasurer, said yesterday that although the quarterly estimates are "just a snapshot of the endowment's value," the current figures show that Harvard has sustained its recovery from the setback of the fiscal year 1973-74. The endowment had a market value of only $1.19 billion at that time...
That was enough to waken the temporarily hibernating Bruins. Less than a minute after a Cornell interference penalty, Brown's power play clicked for the only man-advantage goal of the contest. Bob McIntosh did the honors, intercepting a weak clearing pass and cranking a snapshot high into the right side past netminder David Chrastina...
...remains on good terms with his two former wives. When the eldest of his three sons was married last summer, all the Bailey women showed up and cheerfully posed with Lee for a group snapshot, each of them holding up one, two or three fingers to indicate their sequence in the This Was Bailey's Life marital tableau. He is a lavish Christmas gift-giver, distributing houses, cars, a house trailer and trips to his parents, wife, ex-wives, in-laws and children. But he sees few of them regularly?except for Lynda, who travels almost everywhere with...