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Last week, as the boy ran into the living room, Pincham scooped him up and held him facedown across his knees. "Have you been good in school? Have you been obeying your teachers? Have you been nice to your parents?" Each question was punctuated with a tickle, so the boy's "Yes!" responses were sung in breathless hysteria. It was a lighthearted moment in a year that has been heavy with pain and injustice. As the boy dashed out of the living room, the adults quickly turned sober again. Rosetta Crawford, the boy's grandmother and family matriarch, took...
Some photographers are the poets of purple mountains' majesty. Some are the poets of the placid suburbs. Weegee is the poet of small-timers who died facedown on a city pavement at 3 a.m. in a pool of their own blood. And petty mobsters. He was great at petty mobsters--half the guys in his pictures look as if their nickname was Mugsy. As one of the most unabashed tabloid-news photographers, Weegee was also supremely good at car crashes, dazed escapees from tenement fires, transvestites being hustled out of paddy wagons, and Peeping Tom shots of lovers wrestling...
...hours later, he found himself facedown in a muddy field somewhere near the Austrian border--but how near? Soldiers marched by, dogs barked, flares lit the night. Then a voice cried out, in Hungarian, the words paralyzing him with fear: "Who is there?" Even 40 years later, as he laughs at the memory, his eyes harden; he shifts his neck under his collar. Had the smuggler betrayed him? "We thought, 'Shit, this is it.'" The man shouted again. Now at the limits of his courage, the boy finally answered: "Where are we?" "Austria," came the reply. The relief poured cool...
...then dragged over to the pavilion where Kaiser and Carter were being held facedown on the concrete with a sawed-off shotgun. "Do it!" one of the assailants commanded. And Carter was shot in the back of the head with a .22-cal. handgun at point-blank range. The attacker with the sawed-off shotgun took aim at Nicole's face. The trigger jammed, so the guy with the .22 fired two shots, one into Kaiser's head and another in Nicole's face...
...throat. "He wanted 1,000 deutsche marks [$700] not to kill my son or rape my daughter. I had no choice. I had to pay," Ogresevic said. The soldier told her to march along a small track. She saw the bodies of two Muslim women. One lay facedown in a mud hole, a gaping wound in the back of her neck. "We could hear women who were taken into the woods screaming. We knew what was happening to them, but we were afraid to turn our heads to look." When Ogresevic finally reached the front line, the Serb soldier whom...