Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very much in the spirit of Joseph Cornell. Some photographs are manifestly the product of chance, an incongruous moment caught in flight. The most startling of these is Mark Cohen's Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 1975, which shows a girl's head almost occluded by a sinister, balloon-like object (bubble gum, probably) with a hand rising behind her head like a crown of flesh. Thanks largely to the contrast between the light on her hair, which prickles electrically, the vague street background and the greasy, diffused surface of the bubble, it is an image of unrepeatable weirdness...
...Chris Nadolny, 16, schemed to carve up the Third Reich. Between them was a stylized map of Germany, replete with rivers, hills and other obstacles. Equipped with cardboard counters representing military units, Vincent took the role of Russian Supreme Commander in 1945. Chris was his American equivalent. The object was to bash away at Nazi forces-and then grab as much territory as they could. "It's an intellectual thing," explained Chris, a high school junior from Morristown, N.Y. "I've always had an interest in military history." He supports his interest, immoderately, with more than 100 similar...
...figures on his table, each about 2 in. tall, were painstakingly hand-painted in the exact regimental colors and insignia of the period. The cost of the miniatures is about $1.75 per man. Wellington meets other armchair generals about three times a year. Object: large-scale wars involving as many as 4,000 figures. "I guess it's an attempt to get at the playing at tin soldiers that's left in us," he theorized. "Left in us? What am I saying? That...
Lukyanenko's group, which is based in the Ukraine, only five remain free; their leader, Mykola Rudenko, and three others were sentenced to long terms in labor camps after trials in 1977 and 1978. The singularly harsh sentence meted out to Lukyanenko may have been intended as an object lesson to the U.S.S.R.'s largest and most troublesome minority, its 41 million Ukrainians...
...curtail assaults on their history, Latin American governments have passed stiff new laws against smuggling, stepped up customs inspections and exerted pressure on other governments to cooperate in the fight against the thefts. The U.S., for its part, has made it illegal to import any pre-Columbian object without the approval of its country of origin, and customs officials have become more vigilant...