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The hours are long and the work back-breaking. There always seems to be too much of something: rain, sun, insects, sometimes even crops. The whole way of | life almost seems an anachronism in a land of expressways and glass skyscrapers. But somehow the farmer managed to get by, helped...
Diene Arbus begins with the photographer's Fairy tale birth in March of 1923 into a world of wealth and fashion. Arbus's father, David Nemerov, headed. New York's extravagant Russeks department store, reputed to be the place where millionaires bought gifts to lavish on their "kept" women. Her...
In the Ivory Coast, where the essay is set, the physical manifestations of economic growth have been shrines of a sort to a heritage of backwardness. The tribesmen have been taken out of the country to sit in glass and concrete skyscrapers in Abidjan, the nation's modern capital. But...
In the early years of the century, the seems as obsolete as the hand crank. In 1909 the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti decided that "the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car is more beautiful than the Victory of...
But the bloodshed taught Bostonians one important point that tensions would exist as long as the city's neighborhoods remained as isolated as they now are Perhaps more than any other major city. Boston is a city atomized, split between the neighborhoods and downtown, and split along geographic, racial, and...