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...with the Red Sox one game back in the loss column, life goes on at Fenway Park. But the tension isn't thick, the players aren't scowling, the fans aren't as loyal. Even the Go Sox hats are going slower, and the voice of the vendor has a hollow sound...
...price is easy; finding Forss is something else again. The line forms somewhere in Manhattan. He is a street vendor, one of about 7,500 who pay New York City $25 a year for a license to sell their wares on the sidewalk. No one knows how many more ply the same trade illegally, or how much of their merchandise "fell off a truck," i.e., was stolen. But marketplaces are in plain view nearly everywhere. Weather permitting, and especially on fine spring days, certain blocks in midtown and the Wall Street area take on the pace and color of oriental...
Wherever Forss sets up his fine black-and-white prints, he creates a little museum without walls; such is his skill behind the lens and his technical proficiency in the darkroom. The police, however, see Forss and his fellow vendors as nuisances. Leaseholding, rent-paying merchants think still less of them. So, even with a license, Forss cannot go about his business entirely unhassled. Because of congestion, some busy corners are forbidden territory. There are other restrictions. "You're not supposed to stay in one place more than two hours," he says, adding that the police grow unhappy...
...Sinai dwellers who view it all with stoic detachment. They are the 32,000 local Bedouin nomads, many of whom have grown relatively rich from the job opportunities provided by the Israelis. Yet at least part of their timeless perspective remains. Says gray-bearded Khnebesh Rabiya, a local coffee vendor: "We don't care about Egypt or Israel. What we care about is whether our camels have enough...
...love with Leon, thus supplying the connection that removes the 200 year-old curse, and allowing Simon fans to walk out of the theater happy. And the story doesn't finish there. When ignorance has been conquered, a new society evolves in Kulyenchikov with different problems. The innocent fish vendor becomes an insufferable capitalist, and Sophia is no longer willing to accept Leon's opinions at face value. But life is now fuller for everyone in Kulyenchikov. There can be no going back...