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...tough sell. Jackie spoke frankly of her lack of interest in politics and seemed eager to spend nearly as much time out of the White House as in it. Leaming founds her case on a portrait of the First Lady as a woman whose "tormented childhood" had taught her "that her emotional survival depended on her ability to keep the world at a distance" and whose polished reserve hid a core of "crippling insecurity." The source of this self-doubt lay in shame over her parents' ugly divorce and in her mother's relentless criticism of her unusual looks (especially...
...knocked around,” he says, “are always returning to the past, retracing their steps.” At 78, with six novels and 21 children’s works behind her, Fox is finally lending credence to the statement, offering an elegant, if fragmentary, portrait of her first 20 years...
...Shirley Manson. Even when Bis try for vintage synth-pop revival, as on “Robotic,” their approach is heavy-handed, unremarkable and obsolete—newcomers Ladytron have already perfected the sound. Still, the album’s final track, “A Portrait From Space,” offers hope with an utterly original mesh of strings, Nintendo bleeps and epic guitar work. Transcendent work such as this leaves the door wide open for a follow-up, hopefully more consistent than this...
...famous photographs, a hyperbolically grainy picture of Orson Welles as King Lear, stands out. A double exposure of the guitarist Sharon Isbin superimposes the guitar on her hair in a manner that, if not entirely original, is pleasing. Perhaps the most enigmatic image of the show is a distorted portrait of Attilio Pierelli, an Italian sculptor, poet, playwright and dentist, shot at an exhibition of his at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York. But these are scattered without effect amid the straightforward portraits of, say, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Nonetheless, though a misnomer, this is not a show...
...Karkhla plain is a stark portrait of Afghanistan's plight: one of the world's poorest and most battle-scarred people, plagued by superpower struggles and their own tribal and ethnic feuds, reduced to fleeing to neighboring countries to do menial work for a beggar's wage. Afghans are on their knees, and only international aid can help them back to their feet. "There is nothing in Afghanistan," says Ibrahim Khan Shinwari, Farras' father, who brought his family from the village of Battan in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province two years ago to make bricks for the GI Brick Co., owned...