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...choice icon who changes her mind. The I.R.A.? No problem: Some Mother's Son has flinty Helen Mirren playing the mother of a Belfast hunger striker. And American racism? Take your pick. Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi re-enacts the trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the murderer of Medgar Evers; John Singleton's Rosewood is about the attempt to dislodge an affluent black community...
...story in the game was special teams. After going ahead 24-21 on a Jeremiah Greathouse field goal, Penn's Roger Beckwith, who was not even slated to start the game, blocked a Bison field goal attempt that would have sent the game into a third overtime...
...Beckwith's block, his fourth in three games, was then returned for a Penn touchdown, clinching the Quakers...
...denies the beauty and power of Fisher and Beckwith's work or downplays the effort involved, but some have suggested that in pursuing pretty pictures they've taken advantage of their subjects. "The criticism," says Monni Adams, an art historian and archaeologist at Harvard's Peabody Museum, "is that they are exploiting these people by showing their nudity and other unusual characteristics." Adams quickly adds that she doesn't believe the criticism is fair. "Their pictures go far beyond the phenomenon of bare-breasted women," she says. "There's a sense of people's activities, their quality of life...
...rituals. "African traditions are not vanishing," says Mullen Kreamer of the National Museum of Natural History. "They are changing. Even ceremonies that have been performed for hundreds of years have changed throughout the centuries as people adapt to new stimuli and new ideas." Still, there is a poignancy in Beckwith and Fisher's images, a sense that we are seeing some of the last things on earth that have not been subsumed by 20th century Western culture. Jason Clay, co-founder of Cultural Survival Quarterly, uses the phrase salvage ethnography to describe the race to capture these traditions. "It would...