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...many in Milan continued to wonder if the building was not a target in some other way. Maurizio Invernizzi came to the site to "try to figure out the mechanics" of the crash. "That it was simply an error is hard to believe,"' the Milan bank teller said, pointing upward. "He hit [the building] right in the middle. It seems like something he wanted...
...photographic fictions themselves focus on human stunts. In the photograph which accompanies the story “The Lake of Dreams,” a suspended head peers out of a small pond blowing on a long pipe which gently curves upward; it is suspended without the use of his hands, instead propped up at its wider end by a pole that extends from the water. Around the faded, sepia-like tones of the photograph rise okra-colored stalks of grass from the marsh; the glow of the sun can be faintly seen from the horizon in the distance...
...centerpiece of the show is the 8 inch by 42.75 inch print “Untitled (City of Salt),” the two dimensional answer to the central installation on the floor. Various upward pointing buildings with varying degrees of height and intricacy rise seemingly out of nowhere; but in the far distance we see other “miniature cities”—worlds unto themselves that we can never access—and in the foreground, almost unnoticeable at first glance, are two figures, one at left playing a small pipe and the other...
...Their interactions are refreshingly free of gender-war stereotypes; the women do not gather to commiserate, the men do not spend their time talking about sports or politics. With their honesty and warmth, Jamesie and Mary become something of role models for the younger couple, who quietly rejected upward mobility in London for a simpler life in Ireland. Both couples made a deliberate decision to bind themselves to the village, to its people and especially to the land...
...Then there's 262 and 217, the Dow's gains Friday and Monday, respectively, as the index posted its biggest back-to-back percentage gains since September. Then there's 3.5 percent, Merrill Lynch's brand-new forecast for GDP growth, revised upward Monday from 2.0 percent, and Morgan Stanley's even more bullish Monday upgrade to a forecast of 4.5 to 5 percent. And those forecasts are just for the first quarter...