Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE NEVER been part of a Harvard application. Instead, the admissions office has always relied on alumni interviews for an objective snapshot--in words--of each of the more than 12,000 students who apply to the College each year. More than 4000 veterans of the Harvard admissions process annually volunteer their services to the office, interviewing candidates in their home towns and passing on their impressions to Cambridge. In the past, the form provided for interviewers to fill out about each candidate has suggested that interviewers should only relay their general impressions about a candidate...
...Edwin H. Land, 40, Polaroid's black haired, bright-eyed president, could thank his ten-year-old daughter Jennifer for the idea for his new camera. Several years ago, when he took a snapshot of Jeffie, she demanded to know why she couldn't have a print right away. That got him thinking about a camera that would have a "built-in darkroom," and he developed one that printed 3 by 5 photos that were simply peeled off the negative...
...Lawrence sophomore center Paul Castron notched the game-winning goal, intercepting a Gary Martin centering pass just out side the Harvard blueline, skating in on Blair alone and beating the Crimson netminder high and to Blair's right with a blistering snapshot at 18 09 of the third period...
...when Rob says, "Satellite search," the Scott machine takes a numerical snapshot of the sound pattern and compares that picture with patterns Rob has previously recorded. When the machine finds a matching formation, it sends the computer the corresponding command. With some artful jiggering, Gary and Ted have extended HAL'S vocabulary to more than 280 words...
...intended as a gala reception for French Photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue, 88, but the models stole the show. Christie Brinkley, 27, and Cheryl Tiegs, 35, both came to meet the master snapshot artist at New York City's International Center of Photography. The two had never modeled the same clothes together on a professional shoot, but on this occasion- Miracle on Seventh Avenue-they were outfitted in the same dress, a black taffeta by a new fashion flash named Fabrice. It may be the most embarrassing thing that can happen to a woman, but, says Christie, "it does wonders...