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...blue sneakers. His neck, waist, wrists and feet were loosely bound to the chair. Twenty-six feet away hung a sailcloth partition with five slits. Hidden behind the curtain stood five riflemen armed with .30-.30 deer rifles, four loaded with steel-jacketed shells, the fifth with a blank...
Sometimes when Emerson approached Americans whose husbands or sons had died in the war, she discovered what every cub police reporter finds -the survivors' numbness, an element of blank, nothing much to say. All of the Viet Nam decade, of course, was filled with grotesqueries, wild ricochets of irony. Emerson recalls the case of a poetic 22-year-old private whose job it was to compose elaborate-and totally fictitious-battle citations for senior officers who wished to leave Viet Nam with a Silver Star. The secretary of a local draft board in Gordonsville. Tenn. tells Emerson: "Five died...
...special gift. Lena, his wife in everything but name, sums up the fruits of his labor: "Two exhibitions, ten private sales, a deal of barter." Clem no longer leaves their apartment on the top floor of a crumbling London house; he drinks and stares at the reproach of blank canvas. Lena goes shopping once a week, toys dispiritedly with the notion of leaving Clem and the airless gloom that enshrouds him. Clem reads her thoughts and reminds her: "If you left me, I'd fall down. But so would you" Hanley lightens this bleak, static scene only once-with...
Cranston continues in this letter: "Both the Subcommittee study and the revelation that former President Nixon gave Iran a blank check for U.S. weapons orders, have generated real concern in Congress. Recently, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee insisted that no further sales be authorized to the Persian Gulf States until a thorough review of U.S. arms policy is reported to the Committee. Congress has also asked the President to negotiate multilateral arms export controls. I plan to make this entire question a top priority when the 95th Congress convenes...
Reeds in Snow. In the Depression years that problem was not often raised What counted more was photography's role in the class struggle. No photographer who, like Callahan, spent his time clicking away at reeds in snow or telephone wires against a blank white sky could be credited with much social commitment. Callahan's desire to rescue one formally perfect image from a thousand failed slices of life seem priestly now, but it must have looked solipsistic then. "His aim," writes MOMA's director of the department of photography, John Szarkowski, "has been not to bend...