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...strange family history, seen through a camera's cold eye. Through happenstance, her grandfather, an American migrant to Mexico, became a photographer in the early days of the art and specialized in elaborate portraits of dead children in confirmation finery. A meningitis plague brought him prosperity. He was a journeyman, but his son, her father, became a famed photographic artist, whose morbid specialty was a long series of nude photographs of Ann, before puberty, arranged as if dead. As the adult Ann spirals out of control, a big retrospective show of her father's work is set to open...
...Barakett, who had four of Harvard's nine goals in the final, it was a family reunion. Tim--who is the 16th leading scorer in Harvard history, with 134 career points--took the ice with Blades Captain Bob Barakett, a self-described "journeyman from Canada" and Tim's brother...
Harnett's life is slim pickings for the biographer. The son of an immigrant Irish shoemaker from Cork, he lived in Philadelphia, worked in New York City as a journeyman artist and engraver, studied briefly in Munich, showed his pictures in beer halls as well as in art galleries, and died of kidney failure at the age of 44 without leaving a single recorded comment on his art or, indeed, on anything else, beyond declaring that "I endeavour to make the composition tell a story." But one may be fairly sure that if his ghost saw the Met's catalog...
Coach Larry Little may have little to cheer about with his Glory Squad. as journeyman QB Babe Laufenberg leads the offense...
Certain players kept catching my eye. The 30-year-old NFL journeyman linebacker looking for one last shot. The 19-year-old, 300-pound defensive end with clear pro potential. The flashy wideout who danced to MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" during midfield introductions...