Squadrons of bombers bustled in all directions and at midday an enormous number of vast planes, to which the knowing pointed as troop-carriers, droned overhead toward an unknown destination that was said by two sections of opinion to be (a) France and (b) Poland.
It requires a lot of patience, and the willingness to spend hours with your camera pointed at one subject without knowing whether or not your photos will turn out until it's all said and done.
The artist's ability to evoke women of a certain age and social status in pose, dress and makeup makes for pointed satire, but is also a knowing acknowledgement that the archetype might be found within the artist herself.
From the jaunty clank of Electroplating the Baby via Phrase Book's knowing wink to the pointed throat-clearing of 2000's Her Book, she's one of poetry's great encapsulators, able to set the tone of a collection with a choice word or two.
BONNIE RAITT is less venerable than the men above, but her sweetly knowing voice, her love of the blues, her pointed guitar solos and her thoughtfully chosen songs have made her a touchstone for female rockers.
One can't look at one of those querulous, pointed "Please Leave Your Oversize Stroller Outside" signs posted at a restaurant without knowing that the world has changed.
And in some cases (I'm looking at you Snapchat), the real value of these photos is knowing that they'll quickly be lost to the ages, a pointed rejection of the archaic permanence of images chemically etched on dead tree material.
In a photo taken when she was around thirty she wears a broad pointed collar, her hands stuffed into the pockets of a loose-fitting black dress — she looks away, knowing that the camera will keep looking at her.
There was a call to arms on climate change – and a pointed attack on those who would deny its risk: "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.
