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...juxtaposed with a 50-page story about the love affair between Anna, an enigmatic artist, and Russell, a photographer and train buff. The meticulous paintings depict Russell's old photographs, complete with creases and torn edges. The text is the reminiscence of an apocryphal ex-newspaperman whose attempt to reconstruct a forgotten romance resurrects family secrets and American history. This is an original example of Proust's observation that "the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment...
...four-member board will meet at 10 a.m. today in an attempt to reconstruct the 2182 ballots and determine, if possible, where the 19 ballots are, Neighbor said...
...decades, architectural historians and nostalgic members of the Harvard community have criticized the University for its refusal to reconstruct the tower...
Writing in a loose chronology beginning with the birth of the author and ending in the present, Gray Sexton uses memory, dreams and her mother's poetry to broadly reconstruct a history of milestones and events in the two women's lives. Presented in tandem, their histories illustrate a destructive cycle of abandonment and dependence, a pattern which plagued the Sexton family and, perhaps to a lesser extent, plagues the American family today...
Considering all the tragedy they come across in their jobs, reporters have to develop tough skins to survive. But when members of TIME's Chicago bureau fanned out in the city last week to reconstruct the short, shocking life of Robert Sandifer, known as Yummy, their journalistic reserve was sorely tested. In an intense three-day period of reporting, the Midwest bureau chief Jon Hull and reporter Julie Grace trekked through Robert's former neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, talking to friends -- and more often enemies -- about the slain 11-year-old. They searched out family members, spending time...