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...Crimson through the night on Tuesdays, the other editors and I discovered a mutual affinity for Junior Mints. One of us would snag a box from the vending machine, and soon no one could focus on the work at hand. At first the requests were tentative, the carton-shaking uninspired. But soon we ate communally, each warming the mushy lozenges as we reached deeper in, stretching the mouth of the box wider, happy to mush one in pursuit of a happy handful...
...afterword to the show's catalog, Mark tells us that Tiny is now a single mother with five children by five different fathers. But in the book's final shot we see her from above, half submerged under the bubbles in the carton of her bathtub, a pillowy woman with a tentative expression, not satisfied certainly, but not devastated. She seems to say, "Well, it's come to this so far." The lines of the picture converge just above her head, where your eye takes in a small cake of soap. It's the quiet emblem of all hopes...
...most recent lawsuit falls under the latter category, and that is a source of concern. The warnings, after all, are right there on the carton--they grace every cigarette billboard and magazine ad. If the company, and the government, can warn you and you are still not responsible, what gives? Are we not responsible for understanding to stop at red lights either...
...Rwandan refugee camp in Zaire a young man lies dead in a heap of used plastic intravenous bags. Elsewhere in the camp the corpses are pushed into piles by bulldozers. In Chechnya a man's body leans against a wall while a neighbor helps himself to a carton of American cigarettes that the dead man had been carrying. Then someone else steals his hat and leaves his frozen body in the snow...
...this one was spotted on the side of a milk carton last week...