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...contribution, Drancy (1994), is a segmented white canvas with a smeared, irregular blot faded into its surface. Suggestive at first glance of a stain beneath the skin, good and evil blurred, it is identified in the exhibition program as the depiction of a swastika, whitewashed over in a Paris suburb. According to the artists, the French authorities paint over persistent expressions of Neo-Nazi sympathy. Drancy's whitewash addresses the equally obscured period in French history of Vichy France complicity...
From there it was a matter of improvisation--persuading someone to drive them toward Kobe, then stopping at the suburb of Nishinomiya, where damage was appalling. In Kobe, Kunii had to cover neighborhoods on foot, masking her mouth from smoke and fumes that burned the throat. One night she took shelter on the concrete floor of a school when the temperature was below freezing. Finally she was able to borrow a bicycle. The owner's stipulation: it must eventually be passed on to another needy person. When she left for Tokyo, Kunii bequeathed it to an arriving German correspondent, wishing...
Fitzpatrick then disappeared into the federal witness-protection program, which moved him to a Minneapolis suburb under the name Michael Summers. In the 1980s he drifted back and forth between New York and Minneapolis before settling there again four years ago. Chris Gunderson was a member of a local anarchist collective when Fitzpatrick became a regular at the group's bookstore. ``He was a pretty muscular guy with a physically intimidating presence,'' says Gunderson, who remembers Fitzpatrick trying to draw members into drug dealing and militant actions involving ``Molotov cocktails or guns or bombs.'' Fitzpatrick sold a shotgun...
...lone gunman goes on a bloody rampage in a Boston suburb...
...boyfriend in England and her younger brother addicted to heroin, she struggles to maintain her composure. Driving home one rainy night, she accidently runs into to a German shepherd on the street. The dog belongs to a 65 year-old retired judge (Trintignant), who lives in Carouge, a residential suburb of Geneva. When Valentine takes the injured dog to him, the judge appears unmoved. Troubled by his reaction, Valentine assumes responsibility...