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Arbus's rejection of this technique had many reverberations. It demonstrated a strong desire to collaborate openly and sincerely with her subjects, to put herself on the line, instead of sneaking a shot behind their backs as though they were part of a circus peep show. By obtaining prior approval, she accorded them the dignity and status of individual human beings. This emphasis on their individuality prevents one from lumping them together for any sort of superficial moralizing, or using them, for instance, as sociological evidence in an attempt to justify the value of photography to society...
...buying of stories from tainted sources-"checkbook journalism"-is frowned on by the British Press Council, an influential body that monitors journalistic ethics. Said the Times of London: "Bought evidence is bound to be suspect evidence." The notion that Operation Peep was in the interest of national security holds little water; Lambton's career was doomed before the press intervened. Journalist and M.P. Winston Churchill, Sir Winston's grandson, argued: "Saying that hiding photographers in brothel keepers' cupboards is in the best traditions of journalism is really grotesque." In this case, it is also harmful...
...some of Bertolucci's characteristic romantic ambivalence toward modern life shines through. Paris in rich golds and browns is even more pleasing than it was in The Conformist. In the final phase of the film, even this romance breaks down, as Brando walks past wrecked buildings and muttering peep shows. Still, the film has such a fluid pictorial style that it often seems to visually glorify all eroticism, no matter how painful. If the world is dying, it is doing so in a grand and passionate manner where even the greatest decadence is romanticized by hyperbole...
About the only good thing that happened to the Harvard fencing team this year was the arrangement that allowed the Crimson to shack up at 42nd St. and 8th Ave. while in New York for the Easterns. Anyway you look at it, the hookers and peep-show porno flicks in the 42nd St. vicinity were the most interesting thing to come along for the Harvard fencers all season...
...craftsmen installed peep holes last month in all the suites in Leverett House and Mather House, and women's suits in Lowell House. The Masters of those two Houses had the peep holes installed because of the recent rash of armed robberies...