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...written such provocative books as The Shock of the New and The Fatal Shore and has made more than 25 TV documentaries on the visual arts. Following a near fatal car crash in Australia last year, Hughes is back in full swing for TIME and is in the final stages of completing a six-part series on his native country that will run there as well as on PBS and the BBC. The series, he says, "is meant to get past all that Crocodile Dundee garbage and show what Australia is actually like." He is also working on a book...
...Rosenblatt, a TIME editor-at-large, writes about how the U.S. memorializes its dead, focusing on the new monument to the Oklahoma City bombing victims. "Over the years memorials have changed from generals on horseback to public places designed to affect feeling," says Rosenblatt. Carroll provides us with the final letters written by American soldiers who were later killed in combat. He began collecting such memorabilia after his parents' Washington home burned down, and now heads the nonprofit all-volunteer Legacy Project, which collects and preserves war letters. "These were ordinary people," he says, "in the front row of history...
...afterword to the show's catalog, Mark tells us that Tiny is now a single mother with five children by five different fathers. But in the book's final shot we see her from above, half submerged under the bubbles in the carton of her bathtub, a pillowy woman with a tentative expression, not satisfied certainly, but not devastated. She seems to say, "Well, it's come to this so far." The lines of the picture converge just above her head, where your eye takes in a small cake of soap. It's the quiet emblem of all hopes...
...title story, Dressing Up for the Carnival, opens the book by showing the people of an imagined town "putting on their costumes," that is, getting dressed for another day in their lives. The final story is called Dressing Down and reverses the procedure of donning clothes for the sake of identity. A man remembers his grandfather, a respectable YMCA director who spent every July at a nudist camp that he established on the shore of a nearby lake. His wife, the narrator's grandmother, strongly disapproves: "Naturism was not her nature. Nudity was the cross she bore." Shields portrays...
...getting out of addresses, which was how humans found one another in days before the Implanting of the chips. Also therein they stored their kalendars, which was how they knew to be somewhere and when to be there. This was in the days of the going about, before the Final Connecting, which did away with the need for the going about...