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...from one-sided. Some former members of the old regime and retired Stasi officials, buoyed by the electoral gains of the Left Party, the successor to the G.D.R.'s Communist Party, have become increasingly vocal in defending their former lives. In one incident, 80 ex-Stasi officers sought to block a series of memorial plaques to 40,000 local people arrested by the state security forces from being erected outside Germany's Stasi memorial, an old interrogation center and prison that now serves as a museum. "They are telling lies!" shouted the group's organizer, Wolfgang Schmidt, a former agent...
...paying attention or is tuned in," says Townsend. Of course, today's highly sophisticated TV commercials evolved from fairly humble origins. The first TV spot in Britain, a commercial for Gibbs SR toothpaste, aired 51 years ago during a variety show. It featured a tube of Gibbs in a block of ice. As a woman brushed her teeth, an announcer exclaimed: "It's tingling fresh. It's fresh as ice. It's Gibbs SR toothpaste." Not exactly scintillating TV. But give ad execs of the '50s a break. They were just starting to grapple with a nascent but potentially powerful...
...crime-ridden barrio of Petare on Caracas' east side is, for obvious reasons, not considered much of a tourist destination. The rundown neighborhood is packed with cinder-block shacks, and its streets are filled with sewage. Most vacationers in Venezuela would opt for the country's tropical Caribbean beaches. That's why neighbors peered out of their windows inquisitively when a recent caravan of Americans climbed up the steep slopes of the country's largest barrio, which many middle- and upper-class Venezuelans dare not enter. The group, from professors to real estate agents, ages...
...house," recalls Batty, now senior curator for Central Australian Collections at Museum Victoria. "And people like Clifford Possum and Johnny Warangkula used to come around and paint." He was met with an altogether different picture on returning recently. In nearby Alice Springs, he found budget hotels "chock-a-block full of artists, pumping the art out. I've got mixed feelings about it," Batty says. "On the one hand it's good to see Aboriginal people making money and leaving their poverty, but on the other I'm sure there's quite a lot of exploitation there, and that remains...
...Like desert flowers after the rain, Papunya also inspired a new blossoming of art centers across the border into South Australia. As a founder of Irrunytju Arts, Tommy Watson, a Pitjantjatjara man in his late 60s, is one of the new kids on the block. But with the eye-popping palette of his enamel-fired ceiling-which depicts a rock hole in his grandfather's country in a blaze of hot pink, green and red-we see the full bloom of the Western Desert three storeys above a Paris street...