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...country, the Congress and the media are demanding a peace dividend. Papa Bush sternly refuses to give it to them. For that he is assailed as being out of sync, out of touch, overprudent, weird even...
PHOTOGRAPHY UNTIL NOW, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. This idiosyncratic history of camera art culminates John Szarkowski's 28 distinguished years as MOMA's chief photo curator. Szarkowski tells the familiar tale with many unfamiliar images, like an impish papa springing surprises throughout a bedtime story. Through...
...panhandling in New York City subway cars and stations, but the ruling has nationwide implications. Seeking to stem the proliferation of needy and homeless in a system that serves 1 billion passengers a year, the MTA last October launched its so-called Operation Enforcement. Within weeks, two homeless panhandlers -- Papa Joe Walley, 50, and William Young Jr., 40 -- complained to the Legal Action Center for the Homeless that they were being harassed by the police while begging in the subway. The center filed a class action against the MTA on behalf of Walley, Young and others like them...
...empt a revolution in the Palace Guard. Others were certain that Avril never intended to relinquish the presidency in the first place, and was consolidating his power for a long rule. But Avril's grip over his country is not as strong as that of Haiti's greatest dictator, Papa Doc Duvalier, and by week's end the President, showing signs of succumbing to diplomatic and internal pressure, renewed his promise to hold elections. Given the history of democracy in Haiti, such promises are hard to keep and harder still to believe...
Thomas McGuane has lost his way since the days of The Bushwhacked Piano and does not find it in his new novel, whose aimlessness raises thoughts of old ranch buildings fallen to ruin. His hero, Joe Starling, is a brilliant painter who no longer paints (hello there, Papa H.). Becalmed, then stirred by the faintest of internal winds, he returns from the staleness of the East Coast to Montana, where he has inherited a cattle spread. Here the author novelizes industriously, with small effect. Events occur; characters are brought to life, then enter, speak and exit; but Joe remains...