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...five-foot high black and white photograph of a cat--a simple shot pasted together from 16 smaller rectangular prints--hangs beside several photographs of desert rock brushed over with turpentine and enamel. Downstairs a collage of images made from videotape of the Mary Decker-Zola Budd Olympic confrontation faces Ku Khux Klan members garbed in colorful, hooded uniforms...
With political writing concerning Budd's background superimposed, Donohue's piece seems more a vent for social commentary than an example of art. Not that it is ugly. it seems to be included in Boston Now: Photography, as may of the works are, because of its novel use of photography to express political or social opinion. The beauty of these works may be debated, but their novelty...
...fault found in Decker also had to do with style. That flinty and fragile , 15-year-old who flung batons in charming anger simply seemed less wholesome and attractive at 26 throwing brickbats at Zola Budd. Before a poster of Decker tacked tenderly to her bedroom wall, Zola had once been awestruck that "anyone could be so pretty." Now that the athletes have resumed running and jumping, a number have been reluctant to let Mary up. "Some of us," says Ruth Wysocki, "are relieved that the public knows the Mary we knew all along," the one whom Miler Steve Scott...
...been eventful. Several days after the fact was only casually reported to Oregon police, Mary described a melodrama in which she played Little Nell to a mugger of undetermined size and indistinguishable features who jumped from his bicycle and knocked her down almost in the fashion of Zola Budd, savaging the same hip. He threatened to kill her with a knife but she escaped to flag down the car of an elderly couple, whose names...
SOREST LOSER. Olympian Mary Decker falling down and not letting up on Zola Budd...