Word: masons
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...investigate Davis' allegations, the sorority's national office sent a team that included Atlanta civil rights lawyer Mason Barge. He says the team found no hint of racism: "There was no evidence other than one girl's statement." The local sorority chapter agreed last month to offer racial sensitivity training to its members in exchange for not being disciplined by the university. The sorority still has no black members and is not required to accept any. Out of about 1,000 applicants this year, Barge says, the freshman was the only black. Because the sorority uses campus facilities...
...invitingly incomprehensible lyrics of "Sultans of Swing" are absent. Most of the songs are fairly transparent paeans to episodes of America's folk past, never mind Knopfler's British extraction. The title track features Knopfler and guest James Taylor in a mock-up of a very awkward conversation between Mason and Dixon of Mason-Dixon line fame, but the song holds together if you don't pay attention to the lyrics. Unfortunately, Knopfler seems to have lost the ability to choose exactly the right words for a situation that he displayed so brilliantly in that other Straits staple "Romeo...
...Driving his pickup truck, he barrels past catfish farms, abandoned barns and sleepy towns, pointing out houses and community structures along the way. Even the 100[degree] temperature and nearly 100% humidity don't seem to slow him down. It is only when he reaches the hamlet of Mason's Bend and the home of Alberta Bryant that this bear of a man with a bushy graying beard slips into low gear and momentarily seems to surrender to the heat. Plopping down on Bryant's couch, Mockbee rests his straw hat to the side and catches up with...
...Mason's description of his own photographs demonstrates how they combine his interests in both visual art and writing, as he says that he began to photograph subjects that he felt 'had a narrative, that were somewhat fictional.' Soon Mason moved on to shooting people in isolation, deep in thought, giving the viewer a small glimpse into their innermost worlds. However, Mason also takes pictures of his friends, dividing his time between what he characterizes as 'premeditated, set shots with a constructed narrative and spontaneous street photography.' On the whole, he prefers creating 'random' pictures of people he doesn...
...Mason's most memorable and rewarding experiences as a photographer of 'random' people occurred when he took pictures of workers in a Philadelphia natural food store. Mason received their permission to take candid shots of them while they worked, saying of his subjects, 'they were really kind about it, very natural, [they] did not have a lot of nervousness about them.' It was as if 'you went and photographed your family around the table at Thanksgiving. They [the store workers] were amazing, acting as if I was not there.' The experience ended on an even more positive note...