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...series that Sevruguin took when he had access to the Persian royal court. He was allowed to take formal portraits but also more casual, intimate pictures of the shah. These unlikely photographs were probably made possible because Nasir al-Din Shah, who reigned from 1848 to 1896, was a patron of photography and encouraged the craft in his country. One print is of a Western barber dying the shah's mustache. Here the European is serving the Easterner in a photograph by a native. It is here that it becomes clear that Sevruguin is more than a simple puppet...
...handful of gems, "Charlie's Angels" fell flat as trash TV. The reason? Successful exploitative entertainment is created by people who are either entirely honest about what they're doing (in the unrepentantly sleazy manner of professional wrestling) or blissfully unaware of how bizarre their creation actually is (the patron saint of this sort of misguided brilliance being the legendary Edward D. Wood Jr.). "Charlie's Angels" had a sterile approach that contrasted sharply with its reputation as the foremost example of "jiggle TV." Having been a teenager during that period, I can assure you that sexier situations cropped...
...ISIDORE OF SEVILLE Patron Saint of the Internet Isidore, an education fanatic and voluminous writer, is also the patron saint of computer users and techies, so you can pray to him, whether it's an iMac, a PC or a beta version of Netscape that's crashing...
...FRANCIS OF ASSISI Patron Saint of Ecologists Francis, better known as the patron saint of Italy, founded the Franciscan order, built the first Nativity scene and received the first known stigmata...
...ALOYSIUS GONZAGA Patron Saint of AIDS Patients Laid up early in life with kidney disease, Aloysius counted it a blessing because it gave him more prayer time. At 17 he renounced his family's wealth and became a Jesuit, devoting the rest of his life to the care of plague sufferers...