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Arriving at dawn in Peking's vast Tien An Men Square, the protesters began placing wreaths in honor of the late Premier Chou En-lai at the Monument to the Martyrs of the Revolution. By 10 in the morning nearly 100,000 people had massed on the huge cobblestoned square, in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace. Suddenly, a scuffle broke out between demonstrators and militiamen guarding the monument; a student from Tsinghua University was badly bloodied. Some in the crowd tried to storm the Great Hall of the People on the northwest corner of the square; rallies...
...rest of the pack ranges in background from a crusading young council women--whose latest project was a vigorous campaign to have a large rock on which high school students have inscribed their class dates since 1883 declared a historic monument--to a suburban mayor--who has been involved in a series of racial crises and near-scandals since he took over in 1967--to a lawyer with thirteen kids who incorporated the Ohio Right to Life Society and has in the past run for governor, Ohio attorney general (three times), and U.S. Congress (twice--once successfully as an arch...
...striking because Levit has tried to reproduce Piranesi's image as exactly as possible, trying to find the same angle, the same perspective, or a similar effect of light and shadow. He has not succeeded in a single instance. It is impossible to recapture Piranesi's vision; either the monument itself has changed, or the ground level, or the surroundings. In some instances Piranesi drew scenes the eye (or the camera) could not see in any age; there is not nor has there ever been enough space in front of the Trevi Fountain to make it possible...
...Jove the Thunderer. Levit's ruins do not pull weathered marble's trick of fading into the sunny haze of a Roman sky, or the dust of Roman earth. He has set them off against a darkened world by burning the film up to the contour of the monument...
Scattered Ashes. In an extraordinary spontaneous expression of grief, nearly two million mourners, wearing white paper flowers on their padded winter jackets, gathered to place wreaths around the Monument of the People's Heroes. Bands of weeping youths gathered to sing the "Internationale" and raise their clenched fists. All over the city people wept unashamedly before portraits of Chou. At midweek the remains were taken to the Great Hall of the People, where party officials listened to a eulogy delivered by Teng Hsiao-ping. A silent mass of people lined the Avenue of Eternal Tranquillity as the hearse bearing...