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Photographer Helen Levitt has always been admired in certain circles. Despite a lack of broader appeal, her work, depicting urban scenes in her native New York City, has enjoyed favorable reception among her colleagues for many years; she is, as National Public Radio’s Helen Block once put it, “a photographer’s photographer.” Levitt has also enjoyed somewhat of a resurgence of late, having published a book of her works and having been made the subject of Centre National de la Photographie in Paris in the past year...
...Levitt chronicles the nether-regions and transitory spaces of brown-stone stoops and street corners; she captures the unseen places of sandlots and sidestreets. Her interpretation of the city is an urban sprawl parcelled into discrete little packages. Levitt shuns the easy and trite depictions that populate the popular mind and illuminates street scenes in a manner that is in equal measure gritty and paradoxically poetic...
...print, we would like to divine exactly what is going on inside the head of the drinks vendor who sits on his haunches and stares blankly across the street, and Levitt compels us to imagine the appearance of the unseen woman—or man—whose snow cone-holding hand is all that appears. The print depicts foreground and background people half obscured by a lamp post and a telephone booth, and so, as we wonder, we also revel in the ingenious spontaneity of seemingly unconscious compositions...
...growth partly by immediately recognizing revenue from long-term contracts, analysts say. Qwest has received the most attention because its merger with US West opened the door to other accounting issues. Qwest has denied that it did anything wrong. "Think about a bottle of wine," former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt said in a speech two years ago. "You wouldn't pop the cork on that wine before it was ready. But some companies are doing this with their revenue, recognizing it before a sale is complete, before the product is delivered to a customer or at a time when...
...years, Congress has aided the accounting industry's efforts to avoid new auditing rules. Torricelli is one of many lawmakers (including Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman) who have pressured the SEC several times over the past decade to back off on tougher regulations for auditors. Clinton-appointed SEC chairman Arthur Levitt tried to enact rules that would have kept firms from auditing and consulting for the same clients and forced companies to publicly disclose more liabilities, such as executive stock options. Each time Congress quashed Levitt's efforts. But that opposition was gone at last week's hearing. "Perhaps...