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...FRANCE Algerian Torture The publication of a book by a former French general on the Algerian war of independence in the 1950s has led to calls for his prosecution. In the book General Paul Aussaresses reveals that he and his troops tortured and killed Algerians in the battle of Algiers in 1957. He further alleged that he had acted with the full knowledge and consent of authorities in Paris. President Chirac called for Aussaresses to be stripped of his Legion of Honor and urged Defense Minister Alain Richard to consider disciplinary action against...
...This is the Taiwanese heartland, where kids still play marbles with pits of dragon eye fruit the way Chen did when he was a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. When Chen was growing up here during the 1950s, Taiwan was still struggling for survival; today's grandiose notion of cultural identity was a distant luxury. While the newly arrived leaders of the Kuomintang, freshly landed from the mainland, were building their capital in Taipei, for the native Taiwanese, descendants mostly of Fujian and Guangdong natives who settled during the 17th...
Green's case has divided Utah, where polygamy, although banned a century ago by both the state and its dominant religious group, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is nonetheless still widely practiced. The last bigamy trial was held in the 1950s, and today an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 people live in polygamous households in Utah. But Green's wives were particularly young when he married them--14 to 16. And unlike most polygamists, who live discreetly, Green has been vocal in his support of plural marriage. An interview he gave...
...Best-known of the photos is a series of some 20,000 Frank took around the U.S. on a Guggenheim grant. This view of the 1950s through the eyes of a Jewish immigrant punched many black-and-white holes in the American Dream. One example in the exhibition is some boys outside a Mississippi school in 1955. Frank provides their words on seeing him take their picture: "He must be a communist - he looks like one. Why don't you go to the other side of town and watch the niggers play...
...this sense, Ablow’s work most resembles that of Giorgio Morandi in the 1940s and 1950s. Morandi, called the father of the contemporary still life, relentlessly painted the same enamel bottles and china bowls for decades, using a palette that never wandered more than a shade away from gray. Like Morandi, Ablow is concerned with exploiting a pictorial brand of truth, discovering something universal in the shape of insipid junk...