Word: loretta
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...Among the cheerier works are striking portraits of children by Loretta Lux, including the one pictured here. In Lux's beguiling images, children gaze outward in a symbolic expression of young life seeking to know itself?work that's as emblematic of the new Germany as photos of rusting factories...
...empty autobahn (among the newest photographs displayed). Even when the subject matter isn't Germany - as in Andreas Gursky's vast photographs of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange - there is often an underlying fascination with the workings of capitalism. Among the cheerier works are striking portraits of children by Loretta Lux, including the one pictured here. In Lux's beguiling images, children gaze outward in a symbolic expression of young life seeking to know itself - work that's as emblematic of the new Germany as photos of rusting factories...
...spring breeze blowing a window curtain. The album gives the impression of a kind of spiritual centering the Judds draw not just from music but from the way they live. "We are two generations," says Naomi, "and we play off each other." She listens to and learns from Elvis, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, and the Ink Spots. Wynonna admires singers as disparate as Nat King Cole and Bonnie Raitt. The Judds will cross any musical boundaries, but as they tell it, their real strength comes from staying close to the roots...
...road directions to the headquarters of the Loretta Lynn International Fan Club were the sort the skeptical traveler longs for: clear, fail-safe. East out of Denver to Limon. south out of Limon to Wild Horse, left on Road 9 and right on Road Y. Road Y, explained Loudilla Johnson, co-president of the club along with her sisters Loretta and Kay, "doesn't go anywhere but here...
...just awful," Loudilla Johnson told a shaken guest a lifetime later. "It sucks the shingles right off one side of the house." Kay Johnson volunteered that the wind recently removed two railroad engines from a nearby track. Loretta Johnson said it once blew her from the yard outside the farmhouse to the crest of a distant hill before she could get some purchase. Their father, Mack Johnson, who had been hauling wheat, said it was nothing compared with some of the blows the family had been through. At that point, the visitor resolved that if anybody in the house answered...