Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face with hair, tosses the paper aside, and begins again. He appears not to have heard the suggestion about laying his head on the paper and instead draws his head as a large circle with slits for eyes, a button nose and a huge mouth grinning with jack-o'-lantern teeth. He discards that paper as well. Suddenly he is out in the hall, watching Ralphy receive his lecture. He is told to return to the others, and he runs back with strange, jerky movements of his arms and legs...
...with acknowledging the full range of their emotional lives. Instead, against these blank white backgrounds he has projected the shapes of what appears to be his < own dejection, finding in each glum expression the corollary of a private somber mood. Yet the exhibition is also more than a magic-lantern display of the photographer's psychic woes. Looking through the lens of his temperament, he has sighted one more mythical West, this time a place to represent all places where hopes are checked by reality. His worn-out laborers and depleted old people are the pioneers of our own dilemmas...
...there were endless switchbacks and crosscurrents of time. Reagan stood for the past in a different way. The Democrats said he represented the past, populated by such candlesnuffers as Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. In the magic lantern of his own mythos, Reagan saw himself in a Norman Rockwell vision, an image of a clean and wholesome earlier America...
...moon rose behind it," Amin Jan recalls. "The women and children were weeping." Those who owned trucks loaded them high with blankets, heirloom carpets, anything they could salvage from their bomb-shattered homes; others piled precious possessions on top of mules and camels or carried what they could: a lantern, a teapot, a generations-old copy of the Koran. While it was dark, they traveled fast along the rough mountain roads; during the day, when planes or helicopters reappeared in the skies, the refugees took shelter amid the rocks and trees...
ENGAGED. Gilda Radner, 38, loudmouthed, lantern-jawed comic actress on TV's Saturday Night Live, in films (First Family) and on Broadway (Lunch Hour); and Gene Wilder, 49, cherubic actor whom she met in 1981 on the set of Hanky Panky, where they fell in love both on-and offscreen (real life and reel life diverge in their latest movie together, The Woman in Red, in which he stars and directs and she co-stars as a spurned admirer); in Los Angeles. The marriage, her second, his third, is planned for October in Connecticut...