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Meanwhile, the ceaselessly humming brain center for McVeigh's defense is elsewhere still, in Enid, Oklahoma, 68 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. On the 11th floor of the Broadway Tower, the tallest building in Enid's unhurried downtown, are the offices of Stephen Jones, McVeigh's court-appointed attorney...
...fence is as close to a tangible memorial as Oklahoma City has managed to create in the year since the nearly 2 1/2-ton bomb exploded. It stands at the center of a flat, hard, raw and windswept place; this section of downtown, already in decline before the blast, is now a virtual ghost town. For Americans far from Oklahoma, the hole blown out of our sense of safety and stability at 9:02 a.m. last April 19 has mostly healed. But for those without the advantage of distance--for the families of the 168 people killed and the more than...
Even when he practiced a kind of documentary photography, Callahan made personal and social realities indistinguishable. In 1950 he started taking candid close-ups of pedestrians, mostly women, in downtown Chicago. He would approach them without letting his camera show, then suddenly point their way and snap. What he found each time was a look of troubled introspection, the face as an anatomy of melancholy. Their eyes are veiled. Bits of jewelry bristle around their necks and ears in defensive perimeters. Yet while all background detail has been excluded from these pictures--the head fills almost the entire frame--they...
CHICAGO: Chicago commuters are facing up to forty minutes of added drive time between O'Hare Airport and downtown because of an unusual gawker's delay, reports TIME's Julie Grace. "Elston and Milwaukee Avenues have been dubbed 'Rodman reroutes' because of a giant billboard advertisement of Bulls player Dennis Rodman in a Bigsby & Kruthers business suit and tie which went up after Rodman was suspended for six games for head-butting a NBA referee. The suit is tailored to accentuate Rodman's tattoos in the most obvious way: the sleeves are cut off." Although all the attention...
CHICAGO: Chicago commuters are facing up to forty minutes of added drive time between O'Hare Airport and downtown because of an unusual gawker's delay, reports TIME's Julie Grace. "Elston and Milwaukee Avenues have been dubbed 'Rodman reroutes' because of a giant billboard advertisement of Bulls player Dennis Rodman in a Bigsby & Kruthers business suit and tie which went up after Rodman was suspended for six games for head-butting a NBA referee. The suit is tailored to accentuate Rodman's tattoos in the most obvious way: the sleeves are cut off." Although all the attention...