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...Brassai: The Eye of Paris," the thorough and splendid exhibition that runs through Feb. 28 at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, is the first major retrospective devoted to his work to appear in the U.S. in 30 years. From Houston it moves to Los Angeles and Washington. Next year an even larger show opens in Paris. Brassai is back now in a big way largely because of his fascination with the world after dark in Paris between the wars. Though he stopped taking pictures in the early 1960s, until his death in 1984 he produced a steady output...
Anne Wilkes Tucker, the Houston MFA photography curator who organized the show, calls the Paris of the 1930s a city on the cusp "between the era of the Belle Epoque and that of the Modern Age." The gas lamps of Europe were giving way to electric streetlights. That meant a new kind of nighttime, full of sexy pinpoints in the fog, 20th century floodlights over 19th century cobblestones, popguns of brightness in dark places that told dirty jokes about the naked city. As photographers elsewhere were doing--Josef Sudek in Prague, Bill Brandt in London--Brassai claimed as his territory...
...thought she was probably carrying seven fetuses. She and her husband--devout Christians, Nigerian-born U.S. citizens--refused to abort any of them. "I wasn't even going to give it a second thought," she said last week as she was dismissed from St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston. God had blessed her, she explained, and she declared her babies "unique...
...before you arrive at the metaphysical questions, you face the medical ones. Chukwu, who miscarried triplets earlier in 1998, was treated this time with injectable fertility drugs called gonadotropins at a Houston clinic. Such drugs stimulate the follicles to mature in preparation to release eggs. The woman is monitored, and if a large number of follicles mature, most doctors advise her to cancel the cycle in order to avoid multiple births. Canceling the cycle is simple; either by withholding a second drug that stimulates the follicles to release eggs or, if the eggs are released anyway, by avoiding sexual relations...
...warns Senators not to vote on impeachment until they visit a locked room in the House office building for a glimpse of some juicy stuff that meets his standards of evidence even if it fell short of Kenneth Starr's. (Once dismissed by the snobs as an exterminator from Houston, DeLay has assumed the image of a dirty-postcard salesman from Tangier...