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...they now? The fan letters began piling up. A woman wrote from Australia that her three-year-old son Laughlin said his prayers each night to the photo: "You are the face [that] my son has identified as his hero." A man from Pensacola, Fla., wrote, "Your picture helped convey to the world how average Americans have always performed since our beginnings." Then he warned, "Your task now is not to be overly recognized...
...book was originally slated to be released under the title Nigger: A Problem in American Culture, Kennedy and his editors at Pantheon Books, a subsidiary of Random House Inc., faced concerns that the subtitle was too broad and implied a meaning completely different from what Kennedy meant to convey...
...Justice Department has tried to justify the intrusion as necessary to prevent terrorists from using their counsel, in the tradition of mob consiglieres and drug-kingpin lawyers, to convey information to co-conspirators on the outside. At last week's Senate hearing, Chertoff quoted from an al-Qaeda terrorism manual obtained overseas that urged members to take advantage of prison visits to communicate useful information...
...this exhibit fails to fully address the issues of artistic permanence that the ill-fated Windshield project necessarily occasions. It is notoriously hard to mount an exhibition about architecture; the finished project usually cannot be exhibited, leaving only secondary sources—photographs, drawings or models—to convey an artistic sentiment. While the Windshield exhibition does a commendable job in giving a sense of the house through these sources, it never engages with the larger issues of creation and permanence that the exhibition itself raises...
Comics, Spiegelman explained to audience members, are an effective way to convey ideas because people “think in small units, and comics come in language-like units...