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...from feast to famine. When it comes to writing about the history, anthropology or art history of their civilization, Indians are, by and large, appallingly unproductive. The best book on the history of Delhi was written by a foreigner, William Dalrymple. The best biography of the Indian director Satyajit Ray was written by another foreigner, Andrew Robinson. At a time when more and more Indians are writing fiction that gets read in America and England, a disproportionate amount of the informative and scholarly work on India still gets outsourced to Americans and Britons. The sovereign obsession of middle-class India...
...what she knew best?family and India?and filmed Monsoon Wedding in New Delhi in the summer of 2000. Working with a handheld camera, she captured four scenes a day, completing the entire shoot in just one month?despite losing five days' worth of film to an airport X-ray machine. Giddily enjoyable but unsparing in its treatment of darker subjects like infidelity and pedophilia, Monsoon Wedding was the budget hit of 2001, topping the foreign-film box office in the U.S. and taking $30 million worldwide?the most ever for an Indian film. "Monsoon Wedding was so rich with...
...afforded perfectly constructed images of street life, or what the photographer dubbed the "food for my camera." The ordinary soon became the fantastic, as Alvarez Bravo drew reverie from his subjects. He captured the pensive young girl on a balcony in The Daydream, a picture of longing, with the ray of sunlight brushing her shoulder as if singling her out. And Alvarez Bravo even managed to instill life into still life: in Laughing Mannequins, glamorous cardboard women appear smiling, while it's the real people in the image that lack life. The same is true in Cartier-Bresson's Barrio...
...secret that the other players on the floor are not the ones Brown wanted. The original 2004 roster included such fundamentally gifted veterans as Jason Kidd, Kevin Garnett, Karl Malone, Ray Allen and Kobe Bryant, but each backed out, with excuses that varied in believability from a rape trial to security concerns to a hastily scheduled wedding. Instinctively, it seems that a team comprising Duncan, Allen Iverson and three lucky fans should be able to hang with Puerto Rico, but not only have other nations got significantly better at basketball--"There are no more blowouts to be had," says U.S.A...
Among the tales on exhibit is one by Ray Moore, a lanky, leathery westerner, who shares tender memories of his grandmother cradling freshly gathered eggs in her apron. Patricia Albillar Diaz recounts Christmastime suppers of rice and beans served by welcoming, aproned neighbors. Writer Emily Prager recalls her grandmother's apron drawer and laments the demise of a "fabulous device that kept your clothes clean when there was no running water." These days, she notes, "the only aprons you see are barbecue aprons...