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...film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School in the bleak Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York...
...Born in Brooklyn on March 24, 1938, Fields received his bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 1958 and his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine...
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There he met other students, among them a gang of mischief-making teenagers from Brooklyn and the Bronx who called themselves the Masters of Destruction. Although Phiber claims he never joined MOD, he was happy to share his knowledge with them. Under his tutelage, they learned how to seize control of a telephone account and alter services at will. One trick: turning a rival's home telephone into a pay phone, so that whenever his parents tried to dial a number an operator would interrupt to say, "Please deposit 25 cents...
...rushing black and the captured density of the static white seems exact, perfect and yet imperiled by the energy of movement. Such structures have a lot to do with the way New York City and industrial America generally were described by photography. When Walker Evans looked at the Brooklyn Bridge or Margaret Bourke-White at the Hoover Dam, they saw hieroglyphs of power; so, moving through Manhattan, did Kline. The graininess and stark contrast of Robert Frank's photos in the '50s belong, as Anfam points out, to the same take on America as Kline's paintings -- a place...