Word: photographs
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...What a shame that in the caption to your photograph of "green Londoner" Cameron commuting on his bike, you forgot to tell us that a limousine follows him to carry papers he cannot put in his pannier. Some "green Londoner." Dennis O?Grady, Sheffield, United Kingdom...
...Term for Tea? In Marion Hume's otherwise interesting article on tea tourism, a photograph of a table set for tea bears the caption, "A table is prepared for high tea" [Sept. 15]. The photo clearly shows a table set for afternoon tea. High tea is a British term for an entirely different meal that includes cold meats, salads and much heartier fare and which is served around 6 p.m. in lieu of dinner. Afternoon tea is served around 3 p.m. and is accompanied by scones, jam and cake and sometimes small sandwiches. Janice Leach, Mill Valley, California...
...night the nurses scrawled frantic notes, including this one at 1:30 a.m.: "Dr. was tried ... via mobile [phone] to no avail." The woman died two hours later. I find her husband grinding peanuts in a Freetown market. "She delivered a healthy baby," he says, showing me a photograph of his wife, a tall woman with a confident, beaming smile...
...opens with a first-person voice describing a sepia photograph. This voice then disappears from the novel until, in the final part of the book, it breathtakingly reclaims the narrative: "I am Mukunda. This is my story." Much of the book is organized in this cyclical...
...esteem with which the U.S. President holds him. And so, for the past four years, the Spanish Prime Minister has tried, ever so earnestly, to prove that he's one of the big boys. At every international summit he has tried to maneuver himself into position for a photograph with Bush. The press has breathlessly reported on every perfunctory exchange the two have had. And the much longed-for invitation to the White House - let alone to a certain ranch in Texas - has been the object of countless pages of speculation. But for all the aspiration, Zapatero has never managed...