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...deliberately "poetic" photographs, over which surrealism?which, one is I reminded, Susan Sontag claims to be the natural mode of photographic vision?presides. Some are deliberately manipulated montages, like Jerry N. Uelsmann's dream pictures. Others are plain sights deliberately set up, like Ralph Gibson's The Enchanted Hand, 1969???a delicately ectoplastic fantasy, very much in the spirit of Joseph Cornell. Some photographs are manifestly the product of chance, an incongruous moment caught in flight. The most startling of these is Mark Cohen's Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 1975, which shows a girl's head almost occluded...
...rate to be an undue favor to the rich raised the maximum tax on the biggest capital gams reaped by individuals to 49.1%,* by far the highest rate in the industrial world; the top rate on corporate capital gains is 30%. Steiger would set the clock back to 1969???and a 25% maximum tax for individuals and companies...
...week some loose ends were being tied up: H.R. Haldeman and John Mitchell became the last of the indicted Watergaters to go to prison. After a 320-day trial, the Black Panthers lost their civil suit against the Chicago police who raided their quarters several ages ago?it was 1969???and killed Mark Clark and Fred Hampton. As Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset observes, "This is the first time in ten years that nothing disastrous is occurring." Americans may not believe that they are embarked on a new age, but at least they are savoring a historical pause...
...White House assistant, Edward L. Morgan, even though the committee could find no evidence that he was authorized to act on the President's behalf. Finally, Appraiser Newman changed his story and admitted to investigators that he was not called in to begin his appraisal until October 1969???some three months after the deadline for making deductions ?and did not finish it until April 1970. The papers, the staff concluded, had merely been in "custodial storage" and owned by Nixon until the deed was signed; the gift came too late...
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