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...aware at all times of the other viewers and their widows. Focus on one screen does not shut out the others. As the viewer absorbs one tale, images from neighboring stories flicker in and out of his sight. The artifacts from one life—a bed, a photograph, a shot of the salt mines—encroach on the account of another. At times, sounds from the big screen break into the widow’s monologue. So while the widows speak of empty houses and long days spent in solitude, they are never alone in Varda?...
...over in preparation for a housing development that never materialized. That's where they were walking a month ago when Ruca spotted what to a dog is considered a treasure: a bone jutting from the sandy soil. Ross had an uneasy feeling about the find, however. She snapped a photograph and sent it to her sister, a nurse, who validated her suspicion. Ross called police, who confirmed that it was a human...
...Filled with visual aids, it serves as a comprehensive introduction for readers with no previous exposure to art history or medieval culture. Despite its qualities as a work of art history, however, it lacks credibility as a work of social theory. The book begins with a comment on a photograph of the mutilated body of an anonymous Haitian in Port au Prince in 1994. At the end of the book, Groebner revisits the framework of modernity with insights about the media driven obsession with anonymity and gory coverage of current events in the news. But he never convincingly substantiates...
...Dodd, who has allowed reporters limited access to his mortgage documents, denies he got any preferential treatment and insists he is going to refinance with a different bank. (Dodd allowed reporters one-time access to hundreds of pages of his mortgage documents. Reporters were not allowed to copy or photograph the documents and staff remained present throughout the viewing). "I made the mistake of not addressing it earlier," Dodd concedes. Still, he will not allow reporters to deeply examine the "hundreds of pages" of mortgage documents, saying, "No one has ever showed as much as we have." But the scandal...
...espoused by Harvard Professor Doris Sommer, that every person has the power to change the culture in which he lives. It is embodied in Bogota’s successful plan of rehabilitating respect for its law by replacing traffic cops with mimes. It is the motivating idea behind giving photographic cameras to the poverty-stricken children in the bombed-out Gaza Strip and in Rio de Jainero’s slums. It is the force behind the writing workshops for the homeless that take place here in Cambridge itself. Cultural agency posits that by having the opportunity to get involved...