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...Lights (2004) might well have been subtitled I Am a Camera. A snapshot of 19th century Australian orphan Lucy Strange, who picks up the camera to make sense of her curious, off-kilter life in London and Bombay, the book limned the early history of photography while foreshadowing the advent of the moving image. Strange by name and nature, Sixty Lights risked alienating readers but ultimately dazzled with its precise image-making, from a gentleman's top hat set aflame in gaslight London, a dhoti-flapping Indian impaled by a shard of mirror glass, to the birth of Lucy...
...found their own wives full with child and at the birth discovered the child was a mulatto." But for the most part, explains David Steinmetz, a religious historian at Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C., "Joseph plays a very small role in Protestantism, aside from cameo appearances in Advent and on Christmas...
...quixotic romance over which the maelstrom of press has swooned. At the story’s center is the love of Ennis and Jack, but it’s a romance with its fair share of grime. Their very first sex scene is as bewildering for its rather sudden advent as its overt hostility. The two know to keep it hush hush: “It’s nobody’s business but ours,” says Jack. When the summer ends, the two go home: Jack to rodeo riding in Texas and Ennis to his fianc?...
...They didn’t have the filters to deal with the advent of pop culture, especially thug culture,” Mayes said...
...international law, Sands said last night. The U.S. recognized that “the Rule of Law would work to put forward American interests all over the globe.” Last night, Sands chronicled what he sees as the dismantling of those ideals with the advent of the “war on terror”—resulting in “the deplorable state of international law in the U.S.” According to Sands, members of the Bush administration have divided international treaties that the U.S. had helped to create into...