Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beef will rub away a wart-the reporter edges deliciously close to magic herself. Even the inventory of the purple velvet handbag of Mme. Houdin, ten-year-old Sylvia's French tutor, becomes a litany of talismans to ward off disaster: smelling salts, two thimbles, a photograph of M. Houdin, the number of madame's life-insurance policy, and "a rather neglected rosary...
...photograph of the Hearst editors published in a new company brochure limns the chain's recent history in decapitating detail. "When I saw that picture," says one current editor, "I thought to myself: there's something funny about Harry." Indeed there is. The head of Harry Rosenfeld of the Albany Times-Union sits atop the body of Reg Murphy, former editor of the San Francisco Examiner. Says James Bellows, who is still in the picture despite leaving the Los Angeles Herald Examiner last November: "Harry is wondering where his body is. He thinks [David] Halvorsen might have...
...photograph with the caption ". . . stunned worshipers listen to priest's words of comfort" is a graphic interpretation of Marx's thought that "religion is the opium of the people." Roy D. Baker Truckee, Calif...
Reassembly of the interior was a more detailed and painstaking work. Bear heads, for instance, were carved on newel posts, faithful to an old photograph and to a few pieces of the original stairway which were found in a Sacramento church. The mint-green assembly chamber now dazzles visitors with its crystal chandeliers and 1870s carved desks. The smaller but richer senate chamber blushes with rose carpeting and brocade drapery. Nine other rooms, including offices of former Governors, have been restored as an exhibit at a cost of $1.7 million...
...junk and trusted themselves to the South China Sea. Behind him the junk bobs crazily in the harbor, giving an idea of how it must have rolled in open swells. His fellow refugees huddle together on the pontoon, staring straight ahead, as if posing for a formal family photograph, and sipping water from an orange plastic bucket passed from hand to hand. Three women group under a tent made of shirts to keep the sun off. They pay no attention to the gawkers in fresh-painted yachts who swing close by for a look. A woman nurses a baby...