Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paradox of these pictures is that their visual crispness masks the complexity of their message. Avedon's ultrasharp focus seems to promise minute disclosures. His blank backgrounds suggest elemental truthfulness. If this is not a straightforward picture of the West, what could be? But those optical certainties are a tease. Avedon makes that explicit in the foreword to a recently published volume of these pictures (Abrams; $40). "A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture," he writes. "The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part...
...Connection) and Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) do more to send the genre back to the graveyard than they do to set the spirit free. After watching To Live and Die in L.A. and Target, it doesn't take a film critic to see that Friedkin's style, once straightforward, has become hyperkinetic and trendy in this era of music videos, while Arthur Penn's more innovative and personal approach to filmmaking has become increasingly more traditional...
...goal of hacking seems straightforward enough: participants toss the sack up in the air and begin a binge of "hacking." According to the World Footbag Association, the object of the sport is merely "to keep the Hacky Sack off the ground using the lower part of your body, mainly your feet and knees...
Calling for clearer, more straightforward critiques, the report says, "A Guide which presents all the courses in the College as equal mixtures of positive and negative is of little value" to students trying to choose between courses...
...intricate and were once very difficult to interpret. To get beyond the primitive and tedious practice of scrutinizing the film, Karle and Hauptman contrived a complex statistical formula that takes the position and brightness of the separate spots and "reconstructs" them into a three- dimensional picture of the crystal. Straightforward as this sounds, the equations were so daunting that they were ignored by the scientific community for ten years. Says Hauptman: "Crystallographers didn't have the background to use it." With the spread of high-speed computers, however, the power of the new method became clear. Once it took...