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Operation Uphold Democracy, says a U.S. diplomat, is a model "only for the national war college: exit strategy as diplomacy." If the U.S. will not engage in nation building, he believes, "it's just pasting on Band-Aids." Johns Hopkins Professor Michael Mandelbaum has recently written in Foreign Affairs that...
But that Rodgers and Hammerstein anthem, an inadvertent camp classic, fits the nostalgic mood of City Hall. The film harks back a decade or two to the days when New York pols with great names--Meade Esposito, Stanley Steingut--swaggered toward a dread destiny. The bad guys in City Hall...
Yet he also has a literal dark side. His most enduring pictures dare you to see in the dark. They're so heavily shadowed that your eyes have to adjust to the carbon-tone depths. In his portraits of jazz and blues artists like John Coltrane and Jimmy Scott, the...
What the painter Ad Reinhardt did in his black-on-black abstractions of the 1950s, DeCarava does with these photographs, teasing out the psychological and spiritual powers of darkness. One thing shadows tell you is that nothing worth knowing is instantly fathomable. When DeCarava is at his best, he sees...
Instead he perched there, bitter, monotonic, denouncing Clinton as "the last public defender of a discredited status quo," the "rear guard of the welfare state." The President spoke of the Age of Possibility; Dole of the Era of Darkness. Clinton spoke to 250 million Americans; Dole to 20,000 Christian...