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...photos of a blond wig. But one piece in particular-"Nudes to the Nth," a series of black-and-white images by a female artist called Mardozo-demands attention. To create the photographs, Mardozo, now in her seventies, uses a pin-hole camera called an Omniscope. The Omniscope is peculiar in that it takes pictures on the inside of cylindrical pieces of film, distorting and stretching the images. The results are astounding. Mardozo's nude self-portraits are veritable fleshscapes in which body parts ooze up and into each other. They are at once ancient, even familiar...
...Shoes occupy a peculiar niche in the fashion world. Evoking equal parts Sex Pistols and Maxwell Smart, these funky, thick-soled shoes are attracting punk rockers, swing dancers, bikers and ravers, along with suburban teens. But they've also caught the eye of U.S. Customs agents. The footwear contains a storage compartment called the G-spot, hidden beneath the insole, that is big enough to stash a house key and cab fare--or, the feds say, a few raves' worth of ecstasy. This month the agency's website issued a warning to parents about the shoes...
...capabilities of the two sides, though totally asymmetric, were almost perfectly counterbalanced. And in the peculiar political-military logic of the Middle East, this set the stage for further confrontation...
...most peculiar paradox hovers over the smoke and blood of the Middle East today. The current Palestinian uprising against Israel is aimed not at the government of Yitzhak Shamir or Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud leaders known for their hard line, but against Ehud Barak, the most dovish Israeli Prime Minister the Middle East has ever known. Indeed, Barak has gone so far that Yitzhak Rabin's widow said he'd be "turning in his grave" if he could see what concessions Barak had offered...
...Koetsu is one of those artists who elude classifications, even those of his own time and place. He remains the consummate amateur, drawing his authority from the peculiar independence of his work. It's not surprising that there is no one else quite like him in the West, because there was no one else in Japan either...