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...turning point between the Victorian idea that poverty was an evil to be condemned and the reformer's conviction that it was a condition to be remedied. Riis, like Mathew Brady, had a team of photographers (and like Brady, took credit for their work). Shooting in gloomy alleys and sunless rooming houses, he and his colleagues became pioneers of flash-lit photography -- a delicate undertaking in those days when the newly invented magnesium flash powder had to be poured into an open pan and then ignited with a flaming bang. "Twice I set fire to the house with my apparatus...
Stockholm is sunless for 17 hours a day in December, and London gets 15 days of rain. Greek villages hibernate for the winter, Loire valley inns close their shutters, and, but for the evergreens and skiers, the Black Forest is bare. Surely these are reasons enough for the traveler to stay away...
Probing Antarctica's secrets is an intimidating task. Winter temperatures regularly plunge to -100 degreesF, and the pole itself is sunless for six months. But in recent years the Soviet Union and other nations have fished Antarctic waters for tiny crustaceans known as krill and for other seafood. Scientists suspect, but have not proved, the existence of uranium deposits similar to those located in southern Australia and South America, to which Antarctica was attached some 150 million years ago. The presence of other minerals, including gold and diamonds, is believed possible. But since most deposits would lie beneath...
Buried in his sunless cubicle with his cot, his toilet and his TV, Edwin Wilson seethes, "It is to this bunch of sharks that Ollie North tied himself." If North and others in the Government are sincere in their claims of patriotic motives for their selling arms to a terrorist nation like Iran, says Wilson, then they are victims of "unscrupulous people whose only allegiance was to money." But Wilson does not believe the patriotic pieties he hears on television from the likes of Secord. Says the prisoner: "If I'm guilty, they're guilty. If I got 52 years...
...pages that follow, May conjures up the terror of a sunless dreamscape. He recalls abrupt summonses, moonlit interrogations in the fields and the quiet dawn in which he had to start digging his own grave -- before being reprieved for hard labor. He describes daytime marches through a desolate land of phantoms. "There was dew on the vegetation, and I washed my face in it. Deer were calling through the mist. We passed through alternating areas of thick forest and cassava fields. The stilted huts in the fields were empty and there was no one on the track...