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...smaller Koreans just as invariably make sure that their own chairs are slightly raised so that they cannot be looked down upon. (The Koreans' language is no less belligerent. Recent sample: "You are matchlessly brazen-faced.") It was in such a setting that U.S. Major General William Webb last week indignantly presented photos of a tunnel that North Korean infiltrators had secretly dug under the DMZ; Webb's North Korean counterpart just as indignantly replied that the evidence was all fabricated...
Like Purcell, Alex Webb '74 makes photographs that reflect private fantasies triggered by the external world. Webb is an alumnus of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts who now freelances in New York. His pictures have the raw, spontaneous look of snapshots, yet his images are carefully selected. He focuses on the unguarded reactions of people to their environment more than Russell or Purcell, and many of his best shots are of visitors to a carnival. Children wander aimlessly over an asphalt globe littered with popsicle wrappers and half-eaten ice cream cones; a young girl's dark, wild...
...Webb, who was Truman's budget man, recalled how Truman used to jump up and shake his hand every time he entered the Oval Office. Finally Webb said, "Mr. President, you don't need to do this. I've been here before." Truman said, "Oh, no. You don't know how the presidency operates. If I didn't shake hands, somebody would say, 'The President's mad at the budget director...
...Webb Buell, administrative assistant to the Post-Secondary Education subcommittee, said last Friday that the consortium's report will be considered by the House group "along with the other proposals which we have received over the past few months from citizen's groups...
...named Cher Corp. Whatever the truth legally, there is no doubt Geffen was helpful to her in a difficult time, carefully orchestrating a schedule of public appearances and signing her-for a very comforting price-to a contract with Warner Bros. Records. (The first album, Stars, produced by Jimmy Webb, will be released next week...