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...twin barriers of money and organization, according to Kalamchi, are fairly widespread...
...praise Stop Making Sense, The Last Waltz and Don’t Look Back, but Gimme Shelter is the most historically relevant, the best paced and features the best set list. It’s better than Woodstock, too—it’s its shorter, evil twin, climaxing at the murder-marred Altamont Speedway concert which many have dubbed the event that ended the Sixties. Highlights include a young, comparatively normal-looking Mick Jagger wearing a pi-emblazoned jumpsuit as he struts through “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and a dazzlingly languid...
...advanced weapons and the self-proclaimed possessor of a bomb or two. Backed into a corner, it might react with reckless irrationality. What comes next will depend on whether Bush's turn to diplomacy is a temporary expedient or a sincere strategic shift. Wise observers note that the twin efforts last week to cool these nuclear threats represent a beginning, not a resolution. Washington's hard-liners aren't about to give up easily, any more than the tough factions in Tehran and Pyongyang will. If things go badly, the U.S. could easily find itself back in confrontation mode...
Here are the twin threats and the Bush Administration's efforts to contain them...
Around 1962, Arbus switched from a 35-mm camera to a twin-lens Rolleiflex that produced the weighty figures in a square format that became her trademark. It gave her pimply drag queens the mighty tonnage of Rodin's Balzac. Our predispositions still place pressure upon the images in the hope of making them conform to conventional expectations. This is a dwarf, file under "Curiosity"; this is a retarded child, file under "Compassion." But the pictures keep refusing to fit into those files. In that refusal is the enduring power, both of the pictures and the people...