Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of accurately depicting the course of a campaign, media polls merely register a snapshot of constantly fluctuating popularity. Media polls fail to gauge more important factors, such as the willingness of a supporter to switch to another candidate or the organizational strength of a campaign. The more cautious and probing surveys conducted by the campaigns themselves take into consideration these factors, which are often key to the voters' final decision...
...carried a large black-and-white photo of the SS-20. The accompanying story spoke of an "enormous, dull green cocoon with a blunted half sphere . . . a belly full of fuel, its sleepy snoozing head, where the explosive is concealed." Like earlier photos provided by the Soviets, the Pravda snapshot showed the canister encasing the SS-20, not the missile itself. The article, said a Western diplomat, "is of more literary than military value." And the West is still waiting for that photo...
...detects a familiar cultural pathos, distantly related to Picasso's circus folks but less sentimental. Most of them are in rapid movement, spinning, doing plies and tossing eggs, and this contrasts oddly with the way they are painted. True, Rothenberg always liked to play on contradictions between the quick, snapshot nature of her chosen image (a galloping horse, a teetering bicyclist, Mondrian solemnly turning like a mantis on the dance floor) and the nuanced and obviously slow way it was presented. But in these paintings this incongruity becomes extreme. None are done from life, and yet some figures have...
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...blind date set up by his cousin when he was in his last year at Annapolis and she was working at Hecht's department store in suburban Maryland. At first, she refused to return his calls requesting a date, but his persistence -- and a snapshot -- won her over. Only days after their honeymoon in Puerto Rico, Larry, as his wife has always called him, left for Viet...