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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HALSMAN: When I was fourteen, I discovered photography. Rummaging in my father's closet, I found a discarded 9 x 12 cm view camera. With my allowance money, I bought a dozen plates and photographed my sister near the window. I developed the plate in our bathroom by the light of a ruby-red bulb. It was one of the most magical moments of my life. In the dim red light I watched, wide-eyed, a miracle: the gradual appearance of dark outlines on the milky surface of my plate, forming the first photographic image I had taken. I became...
Beard's Roman Women is a rarity in that very few novels are illustrated (John Gardner's Sunlight Dialogues springs to mind as another exception). Interspersed throughout the book are clusters of photographs of Rome: rain beading on a window, sepia-colored church steeples; Roman street life, a few statues. While pleasant enough to look at, David Robinson's prints are sacrificed to a lost cause. Beard's Roman Women will not be saved by a handful of prints, whether Robinson's or Holbein's, for it is a shallow and poorly written exercise by a novelist...
...many cases, however, the novelty of spending eventually wears off. Some winners, like Irene Balodimas, 59, a former Chicago waitress, get so bored they even want to work again. Whatever else they do, a few find themselves back at the lottery window bucking the cosmic odds against their winning a second million-or, rather, another taxable $50,000 a year...
...Casey sees the Plough and Stars (the flag of the IRA) from the window of a Dublin flat, and through women's eyes. This view of the Easter Revolution was cynical enough to cause riots when it first was staged. In O'Casey's portrayal, the Irishmen in the Citizen Army died shitting with fear; their wives went mad trying to keep them safe at home. The only heroes in The Plough and Stars are those who neither fight nor spout rhetoric: Fluther Good, the working man whose honest dignity defies the British to do their worst, though...
...students obviously were not that upset, however, because their concern faded soon after the University's refusal on the grounds that window bars would block emergency fire exists. Life returned to normal "after we realized there aren't a bunch of murderers and rapists hanging around under the windows," says Raymond, a first-floor resident who signed the petition. In fact, University police statistics indicate the area does not have an unusually high crime rate, and there have been no incidents similar to last year's mugging of two Pennypacker residents weaving their way home after a night at Father...