She and Tom, in a simple way that often caused amusement and more often envy in their acquaintances, adored each other, doted, smiled and giggled, whispered secrets and held hands in public.
They had brought me a copy of it, together with a flyer they had put together to send to people who might be able to afford a limited edition of the book; and, since there weren't many of these in their own acquaintance, they had come to ask me for a list of possible subscribers.
His portraits, which are being featured this month at the International Photography Encounter in Arles, France, and in September at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, are uncannily reminiscent of Avedon's, yet unique in their intimate acquaintance with their subjects.
On the positive side, in their new acquaintance with mosques, Western artists and architects learned that the culture of Islam had salvaged, utilized, and improved upon the scholarship and technological know-how of pre-Christian Greek and Roman sciences, philosophy, mathematics, and art.
They discovered in the course of their acquaintance that they had fought on opposite sides in a notoriously tough battle for an area called the Chinese Farm in the Sinai desert during the 1973 war.
People who knew her slightly inflated their acquaintance in order to find out details.
