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In the gathering darkness, we stand staring out toward Talib lines. Save for the occasional crump of a mortar or burst of tracer fire the front is quiet. Then toward 7 p.m. the evening exodus begins. Since the start of U.S. air strikes against targets in Kabul, there has been...
Since Oct. 16 limited U.S. bombing has shifted to the zone behind the Taliban lines. Northern Alliance political leaders have expressed a cautious satisfaction. But on the front lines they want more, much more, and they want it now. Staring through binoculars at the headlights cresting the pass, Allah Mahmad...
Laura Owens provides the clearest, and most whimsical, example of the connection between abstraction and figuration. In “Untitled” (1999), a monkey sits atop a branch, staring at a bee, which exists in three dimensions as thick gobs of oil paint form the yellow and black...
In the last year and throes of the Soviet Union, I was strolling around Moscow with a university teacher whom I was interviewing. As we walked, on a bright blue September Sunday, I noticed that the people we passed were staring at me--lots of people, with a sort of...
Survivors said some of their dead were buried in neighboring villages, but most, they said, had not yet been retrieved from under the rubble. I calculated that the number of dead was less than 200 - probably around 100. But irrespective of the numbers, the reality staring us in the face...