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Gorey's best-selling books used rhyme, whimsy and a distinctive cross-hatched style to depict the macabre, from the 26 dying children (one for each letter of the alphabet) of The Gashlycrumb Tinies to the hook-nosed visitor of The Doubtful Guest, who never seems to leave...
...There is, of course, an elaborate museum of the disaster. I found its walls decorated with grisly photographs from August 1945, and crayon drawings that children had done to depict the blast and horror. The Japanese bring schoolchildren by the thousands to see the museum, that they might remember. One bright-faced little boy smiled at me (I was obviously an American) and, practicing his English, chirped: "Murderer! Hello...
...respond to political attacks, leaving that role to President Clinton and newspapers like the New York Times, which called Lott's preliminary resistance "irresponsible." But while they're staying out of the political fray, the bureau has invested heavily in television ads, currently in rotation across the country, which depict various and wholly unpleasant effects of dismissing the importance of a census form. A young mother struggling to hold down a job without the benefit of a local Head Start program, a farmer and his wife watching helplessly as their fire department struggles to fight a raging barn fire without...
While preparing for the interview, ABC journalists turned up tidbits that will be new to all but JonBenet junkies. For instance, the network will air never published photos taken outside JonBenet's house the morning after she was killed that are remarkable for what they don't depict: snow. One of the most damning pieces of evidence against the parents has been the absence of footprints leading to the house. No footprints, no intruder. But the pictures show only patches of snow that could have been avoided. (By the time the media had camped outside the house, however, there...
...last exhibit space of the museum, there is a gallery of portraits of current members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, with quotes from many of them. All of these photographs depict people whom I would visually identify as either white or black, not Indian. Below the photograph of Regina Kirchner, whom I would identify as white, reads the following: "My mother never talked about being Pequot, so it's hard for me to have this feeling about being Indian. I really feel I'm living between two worlds, you might say. I'm trying to get back some...