The Art of Wordplay — 2008
The Best of 2008 from the Wordplay photo gallery
The Wordplay blog is enhanced by some great New York Times photography. Here are some of my favorite images.
Special thanks to Marcia Allert and Kathleen McElroy for their fine work here.
The National Zoo's giant panda cub, Tai Shan walks through the panda exibit at the National Zoo in Washington on Nov. 29, 2005. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
Alan Alda as Richard Feynman in the play "QED" at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
The annual Sidewalk Santa parade near St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, on Nov. 28. (David Goldman / Associated Press)
Les Saxby plays a traditional aboriginal musical instrument known as a didgeridoo. (David Gray/Reuters)
The Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July. (Fabrice Coffrini / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
The guitarist and inventor Les Paul performs at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York. (Paul Goguen/Bloomberg News)
Minnesota Fats, the boastful billiard wizard whose real name was Rudolf Wanderone Jr. (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)
“The Madonna and Child Enthroned With Saints Bartholomew and Ansanus and a Donor,” center, by Segna di Bonaventura, at Christie’s auction house. (Sang Tan/Associated Press)
Ingrid Bergman with Humphrey Bogart in “Casablanca.” (Associated Press)
The actress Tyne Daly in April 24 in Washington. (Nancy Ostertag/Getty Images)
 Mata Hari, circa 1905. (Hulton Archives/Getty Images) |
 Jesse Owens during the Olympic Games in Berlin. (Agence France-Presse — Getty Images) |
Gen. Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser, testifying in 2007 in Washington. (Carol T. Powers / Bloomberg News)
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis returning to New York City from Staten Island. (Thirteen/WNET, via Corbis-Bettmann)
The actress Fay Wray is shown in the RKO’s film production still from “King Kong” circa 1933. (RKO, via Getty Images)
The famed folk musician Arlo Guthrie performed a free outdoor concert at Damrosch Park on Aug. 2, 2007, in New York. (Jason DeCrow/Associated Press)
Forest Whitaker portrays President Idi Amin of Uganda in “The Last King of Scotland.” (Fox Searchlight, via Associated Press) 
Ian McKellen as Gandalf the White in “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.” (New Line Productions)
Movie Still Archives
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 Marion Davies |
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Agence France-Presse
