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...Amsterdam. In “Kingdom of Shadows,” Tan explores how images help contribute to a sense of self. A former Nazi in the film describes how his first encounter with pictures of Auschwitz defied his entire worldview. Tan also interviews a New York artist, Alfredo Jaar, who believes that only images of pain can still affect today’s viewer. In “The Eyes of Gutete Emerita,” Jaar forces viewers of his work to confront images of the genocide in Rwanda directly by placing one million slides on a lightbox...
...last week, the N.L.F. captured Zingibar, capital of Fadhli. Next morning a band of 28 N.L.F. rebels invaded the town of Jaar and kidnaped Sheik Ali Atefal-Khalidi, 24, who was taking his turn as chief of state of the federation's government, a job that rotates among the sheiks. Most of the other sheiks were off in Geneva, talking with a delegation of U.N. independence observers who had prudently decided to do their observing from afar...
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