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...Americans stare at a naked can vas painted by the artist Future, we can envision a war between the Arabs and the Israelis any time within the next few years. After the war begins, we can en vision the Arabs once again cutting off America's oil supply. We can visualize Americans growing cold living in their poorly heated houses and standing on corners waiting for streetcars...
...white photographs illustrates aspects of American life from 1880 to 1915. The dates are more or less arbitrary, a roomy frame for the works of the 16 photographers whose portfolios are included. Some are well known, others relatively obscure. All survive in these photographs, along with their subjects. Eyes stare back from these pages with startling clarity...
...children and babies your heart goes out to most, and to mothers who stare vacantly at you as they try to suckle babes at dried-up breasts . . . Watching people die slowly from starvation is worse than watching them die quickly in war. The look of utter despair on their faces is something I'll never forget...
...find them an invasion of privacy. On a street late at night, they are threatening. But no matter how women feel about these jibes, the authors say, they all react the same way. Lowering our heads to the ground, they say, we pretend to fumble in our purses, or stare straight ahead and go on. The more arrogant among us may call it "not giving him the satisfaction of a response." But the authors say it is something more deeply-rooted. They say it is a desire to please, a desire not to make trouble, and most...
What is it that keeps them going? What inspires those guys who stare enviously at a patch of bench or the ones who'll never even dress for the J.V. scrimmage? Oh, they'll tell you it's for "the love of the game," or some other well-bandied phrase, but a more perceptive eye sees right through that centennial helmet--right down to that last big game, that vestige of glory--the previous senior year...