Word: lamplighters
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...into melancholy and the poisons of anti-Semitism. His eyes were failing too. In this show, which travels next to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the best pictures match his dryness to his darkness. Go first to his elastic Nude (Drying Herself), which begins in weird lamplight and ends in shadow. As raw as any of E.J. Bellocq's shots of New Orleans prostitutes, it also has the strange torsion of Lee Friedlander's tumbling nudes. This is Degas, cold and formidable, who saw what was angular in what was modern, even when he painted ballerinas...
...this determinist bleakness, where is the lamplight of hope? In a union of the workers against the bosses? Dream on. The miners endure such harsh lives that when they start a strike, they must brutalize the workers who oppose it. The workers have lost the victim's halo; now their hands will be soiled by blood as well as coal dust...
Elizabeth Brown, who taught in Kakamega and returned to the United States last May, recalls families living in mud houses, children studying at night by lamplight if they had any light at all and farms connected to schools and one another by dirt roads...
Sixty years ago, the U.S. was still provincial. It was a country of vast, lonely spaces and rural communities where people read magazines like the Saturday Evening Post by kerosene lamplight. The outside world was remote. America's role in World War I had destroyed the distance, but that was not yet clear. If the world was considered at all, it seemed somewhat menacing?especially the new Communist regime in Russia, which was seen as a fragile but ominous experiment (TIME wrote: "The czarist oligarchy has given way to proletarian absolutism"). Even so, the globe still appeared relatively ordered, like...
...oldest girl, is given charge of her baby sister. When she grows inattentive, faceless creatures steal in and exchange the child for a simulacrum made of ice. Frantic, Ida climbs backward out her window and into the sky, tumbling through worlds of arbors and harbors, moonlight and lamplight, irrevocable loss and paradise regained. In the end the villainous goblins are revealed as babies, but in the author's view this makes them no less terrifying: What could be more incessant and demanding than an infant? At each turn, Sendak provides illustrations that refer to-and bear comparison, with...