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Somewhere in northern Haiti: a lone human-rights worker sifts through a stack of Polaroid pictures. Photos of men beaten so badly that chunks of flesh are missing from their buttocks. Pregnant women with deep bruises on their bellies. Young girls gone vacant-eyed after rape. The pictures, the man says, are proof of brutal government repression in Haiti, in this case the coastal city of Gonaives, against supporters of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the President ousted in a 1991 military coup...
Evans, who served as staff for the ad hoccommittee, said the specific job description forthe new position would be resolved at theCouncil's May 18 meeting. "We're still in theprocess of putting the flesh on the bones," Evanssaid...
Surely you've noticed the Jockicus in one of your sections. He usually lacks a neck, or at least it starts and ends with a thick roll of flesh that protrudes from the back of his occipital bone. He looks as if he starts every morning by consuming at least four boxes of Wheaties before rendering an innocent-looking bathroom completely uninhabitable...
...Flesh and Bone...
Among those ends is to convey the unwelcome news that the body capitulates over time, a task for which Avedon's icy style is ideal. Seen in his deadly light, the mortification of the flesh never looked so mortifying as in his portrait of Dorothy Parker, taken after she had steeped herself for decades in martinis and her own bile. Yet put aside the thought that she was rattling herself to pieces, and the very lines of her droopy complexion are as weirdly captivating as strange tattoos. Even if Avedon never had in mind Rilke's claim that "beauty...