Word: sunstruck
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Other pictures are more emphatically striking: a large color photograph by Paul Souza, shot through a tilting windshield, containing a snaking road, dark cliffs and, above the foreshortened yellow strip of the car's hood, an exultant view of sunstruck clouds--a kind of visual trumpet blast. Essentially the same compositional strategy, and the same dramatic clarity, are on view in a black-and-white photograph of an industrial wasteland by Roswell Angier: in the foreground, framed by a windshield and side-window, we see the blurred silhouette of a rearview mirror, a woman's blanketed back, a squinting Indian...
...unhappy people were not the only sufferers. In the Cologne Zoo, three South American llamas collapsed from heat prostration at about the same time; one later died. So did a sunstruck boa constrictor in England's Dudley Zoo, where special sunshades were set up to help the penguins weather the continuing heat wave...
...focus. The town's self-respect is felt to be eroding. "People are bringing the shutters down from their attics and putting them back on their windows," Updike writes. His story ends: "The downtown seems to be tightening like a fist, a glistening clot of apoplectic signs and sunstruck stalled automobiles. And the Hillies are slowly withdrawing upward. ..They are getting ready for our attack...
Paul Strand's wide-eyed, Diego Rivera-like Mexicans stand in doorways and sit on doorsteps, as though sunstruck. Davis Pratt, acting curator of photographs at the Fogg, calls Strand "the greatest living American photographer," and the Fogg show has three examples of his sensitive portraiture...
...whitewash. A journalist coaxes a witness into a confession; an alibi springs an irreparable leak. The incorruptible public prosecutor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) remains unswayed by police and government threats. Ascending clues like the rungs of a ladder, he finally commands a chilling view of the assassination: Greece is a sunstruck nightmare, its police and army officers crypto-fas-cists, its government a palace of corruption. Slowly, he begins to indict the nation's entire power structure for political murder...