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Magubane's touching photograph of Mandela hugging a grandchild appears in this week's issue. But as far as Mandela is concerned, the most important picture Magubane took last week is a small black-and-white head shot. Informed that Mandela wanted to apply for a passport in case he was called to African National Congress headquarters in Zambia, Magubane obliged by shooting a roll of black-and-white film and having it developed overnight. The next day Mandela's lawyer showed up to take Magubane's photographs to the passport office in Johannesburg...
...gift of magic -- black magic or white, and every rainbow shade in between -- and the curse of belief in it. Women levitate as they give birth; the veils of dead brides float in the rank breeze. Proud, loving Hatidza (Ljubica Adzovic) has the power of healing, and her grandchild Perhan (Davor Dujmovic) can do a few telekinetic tricks too. We won't even discuss -- because they come at the end of this beggar's banquet of a film -- the walking outhouse and the killer fork...
...Reagan interrupted Mrs. Gorbachev's lecture on the need for the two nations to become more open with one another. "Haven't we? Haven't we?" she cut in. Amid the shop-till-you-drop types, Barbara Bush was the only guest wearing the kind of suit a grandchild could spill apple juice on with impunity. She raised the room temperature 30 degrees by engaging in the kind of small talk that keeps international incidents from breaking out ("How do you say cheese in Russian...
...first debate was his list of causes the A.C.L.U. -- and, by extension, Dukakis -- supposedly favors: removing the tax exemption from the Roman Catholic Church, repealing child-pornography laws, deleting "God" on the currency and dismantling the movie-ratings system. Bush fumed, "I don't want my ten-year-old grandchild to go into an X-rated movie...
Does Dukakis want Bush's ten-year-old grandchild to see Deep Throat? Not likely. Nor does the A.C.L.U., which explains that it is not pro-pornography but is anti-censorship. Says executive director Ira Glasser: "Anyone who uses a child in pornography is violating the law and should be prosecuted, period." The group has not spent one cent to dismantle the movie ratings but has merely met with the judges to find ways to make it less categorical...