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...floor exhibit at the ICA is organized according to different periods in Sherman's short career. Her earliest photographs are "film stills," small black-and-white pieces in which she assumes the role of an imaginary starlet caught for the camera in a contrived Hollywood moment. Already in these early works, which date from the late '70s, one sees the artist's preoccupation with her own transformed image. The film stills reflect, says Sherman, "the role playing that everyone does through life...
...highest-ranking officer on hand is James H. Polk, 75, now a horse farmer from El Paso, who retired with four stars after commanding the U.S. Army in Europe from 1967 to '71. His earliest recollections are of horses and Army encampments. He was a small boy, he remembers, living here at Riley, when the bugler blew officers' call at lunchtime one day. His father, a young lieutenant, was on a train two hours later, heading toward Mexico to chase < Pancho Villa with General John J. Pershing's 1916 punitive expedition. "He never had time to change clothes...
Vladimir Slepak gained the nickname "father of the refuseniks" as one of the earliest and most dogged defenders of Soviet Jews who had been refused permission to leave the country. Since 1970, except for five years of forced exile in Siberia, the television engineer served in Moscow as a key source -- sometimes the only source -- of information and advocacy on behalf of fellow Jews who wanted to emigrate. Last week, 17 years after Slepak and his wife Maria first applied for an exit visa, the two celebrated his 60th birthday in Jerusalem after a joyous arrival ceremony attended...
...have made its first appearance in the U.S. almost 15 years earlier. In a front-page article in the Chicago Tribune, they related the extraordinary saga of Robert R., a 16-year-old black Missourian who, they believe, died of AIDS in 1969. The case may represent the earliest documented instance of AIDS in North America, predating that of Gaetan Dugas, a Canadian flight attendant. Dugas, who contracted AIDS before 1980 and died in 1984, was publicly identified as "Patient Zero" only last month. Tissue samples from Robert R. may eventually reveal what caused the virus to spread...
...Saturday we were in the lead when one of my roommates from freshman year was passing tennis balls around to the fans in my section to throw on the ice at the earliest possible opportunity...