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...able department stores looked as seedy as portside pubs, with stark light glaring from naked bulbs powered by generators. Yet there were compensations. Mayfair's elegant shops looked even more elegant with lighted silver candelabra on their counters. The widespread use of candlelight cast a heartwarming, old-fashioned glow over the misery of it all. Recalling the baby boom after the 1965 New York blackout, officials decided at 10:30 p.m. they had best sponsor a birth control campaign. Now the last thing Londoners will hear when they turn off the telly is: "Make sure your baby...
...load a poor ash tray too full, but the kind of contained glow that radiates in this photograph, and the similar "charging" of the matter of fact that happens in a lot of Alex Webb's photographs is a good model for what photography can do best. There is an outsider's distance, even arrogance, here that picks its images intelligently and admits the choosing straight-forwardly, just by seeming so plain...
...state-owned aircraft not long ago, Westmoreland found himself 18th in line for takeoff. "In the old days, I'd fly into a military airfield and they'd clear out everything a day ahead," he observed wryly. But the luster of his four stars still casts a glow. During a recent visit to a technical school in Denmark, S.C., Westmoreland found some of the students dressed in old combat jackets, their name tags still in place. "Where were you?" Westmoreland briskly inquired of each while shaking hands. Back came the replies: "Korea ... Okinawa...
...develop such a crust. Other astronomers suggested that Kohoutek, a "virgin" comet making its first approach to the inner part of the solar system and never before exposed to the warmth of the sun, had flared up briefly when its more volatile materials boiled off. It was that early glow, observed when the comet was still as far away as Jupiter, that raised astronomers' expectations...
Dreamy Clout. At Dentsu, that could be more than mere hyperbole. The diligence of the 5,000-person work force is legendary, and the lights of the agency's 15-story glass-and-concrete head quarters near Tokyo's Ginza regularly glow late into the night. Competing admen joke that "the first people on the streets each morning are the ragpickers - and Dentsu men hurrying to work." In seeking new business, the firm's account executives are the most aggressive in Japan; they often refer to calls on prospective clients as attacks. Each summer a group...