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...last weekend’s Earth Day celebration in Winthrop courtyard, the Environmental Action Committee’s booth was tucked away behind a pile of cardboard boxes and crumpled newspaper, refuse from the neighboring Springfest...
...works for Shamrock Inc., a booking agency whose employees are strippers like Bambi (her stage name). Bambi doesn’t take home a paycheck, but in her black gym bag, she stuffs the huge pile of ones she has made in tips. Bambi’s grand goals—a degree, some time in the Peace Corps, a family of her own—all depend on those dollar bills...
Five bachelor parties later, it’s nearing 5 a.m., and Bambi is ending her night. Back at her apartment, she counts her money, a big pile of ones passed from driver to customers, from customer to her, from her to her bag. The pile can total nearly one grand...
...last weekend’s Earth Day celebration in Winthrop courtyard, the Environmental Action Committee’s booth was tucked away behind a pile of cardboard boxes and crumpled newspaper, refuse from the neighboring Springfest...
Even in a serene, sunlit atelier on Paris' Left Bank, the life-size paintings propped against the wall cast a pall of terror. A hulking dog snarls with bared fangs over a naked man lying bloodied and bound on a concrete floor. Naked, hooded bodies lie tangled in a pile. A blindfolded prisoner stands in red women's underwear. The scenes of abuse by U.S. military prison guards in Abu Ghraib, near Baghdad, are unmistakable, almost as much as the painter's style. The Colombian artist Fernando Botero is, by his own admission, best known as "the painter...