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...access to the Persian royal court. He was allowed to take formal portraits but also more casual, intimate pictures of the shah. These unlikely photographs were probably made possible because Nasir al-Din Shah, who reigned from 1848 to 1896, was a patron of photography and encouraged the craft in his country. One print is of a Western barber dying the shah's mustache. Here the European is serving the Easterner in a photograph by a native. It is here that it becomes clear that Sevruguin is more than a simple puppet of Orientalism. The shah looks regal and sophisticated...
...also the Department of Defense, which allowed valuable assets of this country to go into harm's way without proper security precautions. And it is the captain of the Cole, who did not order a top-level security zone around his vessel to see that all approaching craft were stopped and checked. Young men and women were killed as a result of these actions. The loyal Americans who died are all martyrs. TARIK N. AYASUN Marco Island...
...Actors are always asked about what's challenges them in their craft. But looking at your movies, can you pick out one thing that really forced you to stretch your range...
When a band decides to focus on the craft of songwriting, you know it's coming off a lemon, as U2 is. But Pop was the anomaly in a career that's been dedicated, and now rededicated, to making great rock music. The 11 tracks, produced by U2 veterans Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, reveal a band exhausted with its own irony, and aging, if not always gracefully, at least honestly. Beautiful Day and When I Look at the World are Bono full-voice blasters, while the melancholic Kite and New York are about people who still haven't found...
...finest western, but it does stand as a fitting conclusion to his body of work. You see, there's this one oblique view of the town's main street and a big wagon wheel is prominently placed in the frame... Intended, one assumes, as a final farewell to the craft Joseph H. Lewis loved so well...