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Ansel Adams was the poet of the gray spectrum, the man who dipped the American sublime into the inkpot of black-and-white photography and by that means made it new again. So persuasive were his methods that because of him we tend to think of the national parks the way we think of the Great Depression, as something we can barely conceive of in color. He almost made us believe that the whole of creation comes in the palette of a cinder block - and to be glad about it. (See 10 things you didn't know about national parks...
...father to cut young Ilyich's allowance. He fell in love with a Cuban woman, with whom he had a daughter. He lost touch with them, yet often referred to the woman as his "greatest love." In 1970 he was expelled for "anti-Soviet agitation" after throwing an inkpot at the Iranian embassy. By some accounts, this was a cover for his recruitment by the KGB. True or not, Carlos used his university days to form close friendships with Third World radicals...
...fairness, not of law. Said Daily News Managing Editor James Willse: "If you say someone is charged with a crime in the past and don't give the disposition of the case, that's not complete reporting." Other editors viewed the episode as a tempest in an inkpot. "This doesn't seem to be one of the greatest issues of our time," said Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, whose paper ran the series with a separate story explaining Dellacroce's acquittal (and his recent indictment on racketeering charges). Many papers also printed Sinatra's response criticizing Trudeau...
...elephant out of a mosquito." At week's end the Cologne prosecutor had still not filed an indictment, and everyone was hoping that the Shah would decide to settle for Neven Dumont's personal apology and thus bring a quiet end to the tempest in an inkpot...
...peace. Last week Graham reported on the kind of satanic guerrilla warfare that goes on behind the scenes in response to Billy's frontal attack. He was dictating some notes for a sermon on the Devil, he said, when his dictating machine caught fire. Martin Luther threw his inkpot; Billy finished the notes in longhand and hurried to Madison Square Garden-only to find that he had lost them on the way. "Something like this always happens when I preach on the Devil," said Billy. "There's a tremendous concentration of satanic power in New York; but grace...