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...himself as the new strongman of Gaullism, and it was celebrated at a masterfully staged political extravaganza. The name of the old party, U.D.R. (Union des Démocrates pour la République), was changed to the Assembly for the Republic (Rassemblement pour la République).* Seventy thousand Guallist supporters-the biggest political convention ever-were brought to Paris' Porte de Versailles exhibition hall by ten special trains, 300 buses and charter flights from all over the country. It was an excited, happy crowd of all ages, of men and women, many wearing tri-color emblems...
...photography's role in the class struggle. No photographer who, like Callahan, spent his time clicking away at reeds in snow or telephone wires against a blank white sky could be credited with much social commitment. Callahan's desire to rescue one formally perfect image from a thousand failed slices of life seem priestly now, but it must have looked solipsistic then. "His aim," writes MOMA's director of the department of photography, John Szarkowski, "has been not to bend photography to his purposes, but rather to immerse himself in its will-to make himself its instrument...
...trendy. But the big question is : are these mighty Moes as happy as Digger the Dog? Well, joyous readers and Lebanese alike have reason to put on the glad bag feeding mask, for in general the overwhelming majority unanimously cries out in pearly wontons: "Si, si, senior!" The thousand-year-old egg reads like this: Bulldog Brower says, "I've never been happier. You can't imagine what the story is until you give...
Okay, so it's not a perfectly representative study, but it would be impossible and dishonest to ignore the fact that almost every single response reflected the same discontents, fears, guilts. Two to three thousand women must communicate similar impressions about their sex lives and sexuality for very real reasons as opposed to a flukey coincidence. From the point of view of academic sociology. Hite's research and methods probably aren't tidy enough. But the problem of statistical skewing does not invalidate the gist of the verbal responses they elicited...
Fortunately, any one of the pictures in Lewis Carroll Observed is worth a thousand of the words. From a facsimile of Carroll's first known nonsense poem (a mock epic) to his pictures of little girls (he was a surprisingly talented photographer) to his unpublished sketches for Sylvie and Bruno, the illustrations in this book are on a higher level than the coffee-table. But the weight of the text may confine the book there...