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...last week's ceremonies, President Guzmán briefly paid tribute to his predecessor for agreeing, in the end, to allow a peaceful transition. But he attacked the outgoing regime for its "moral decay." He promised to bring new blood into the government-and proceeded to do it on the spot. Sworn in immediately were three able and fairly young technocrats who will direct the country's battered economy: Harvard-educated Economist Manuel José Cabral, 41, as Finance Minister; Eduardo Fernández Pichardo, 41, former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Santo Domingo...
...levels. First there are the sites themselves. Although a few of his shots smack of artiness, Photographer Vittorugo Contino is usually content to let Pisa, Verona and especially the stones of Venice speak for themselves. His black-and-white photography starkly captures the Venetian redolence of intrigue, history and decay...
This intimacy means a ravenous consumption, rather than contemplation, of images. Szarkowski, an aesthete to the fingertips, will have none of it. His catalogue essay describes the decay of the relationship between serious photography and the dying picture magazines in the '60s, along with what he terms the growing realization among photographers that the camera's testimony about news was "opaque and superficial." He roundly states that "good photographers had long since known?whether or not they admitted it to their editors?that most issues of importance cannot be photographed." So one of the messages of the show is clear...
...visitor to Dover-Foxcroft soon sees, in purely material terms the project consists of a complex of five buildings MacArthur bought for $100,000 with a mortgage taken out last July. Dating back to 1867, Brown's Mill stands in all the interesting stages of decay known to brick, mortar and wood. As MacArthur takes you on the conducted tour, picking his way buoyantly through the rubble, he can manage to see Brown's Mill as a stranger sees it-but not for long. For MacArthur, in this cavernous tomb to New England's vanished woolen industry...
...general dismay about the decay of the Rolling Stones has been at least temporarily dispelled by the release of Some Girls, an album that recalls the glory days of Exile on Main Street and Sticky Fingers. Like the phoenix, the Stones have risen up from the ashes of their recent disappointments and their tragic personal difficulties to record one of their most energetic and compelling albums...