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Other photographers of Levinthal's generation, such as Cindy Sherman, have testified to the influence of "Hitler Moves East" in pushing photography away from the sternly mimetic documentary style of the 1960s toward a more playful, artificial relation to the world.
When asked on Face the Nation whether the United States would "negotiate" with a "war criminal," Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott sternly replied: "We're not negotiating with Milosevic.
"Ah, the son of Daniel Bell and Pearl Kazin," she says, her great eyes shining sternly.
Another problem, pointed out by the Post : Boris Yeltsin sternly warned yesterday against any NATO deployment and his Defense Minister said such a move would plunge the world back into the Cold War.
For what were Freud's followers, in the sanctum sanctorum of sternly silent analysts who conduct long-term analyses with patients lying on couches, in this impossible time for the famously impossible profession, up to?