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Every conflict has its signature medium. The Civil War gave birth to war photography. World War II provided radio's finest hour. The Vietnam War became the bright shining moment of network TV news. The Gulf War made CNN a worldwide brand...
...President Bush has often said that the war on terrorism is a war without borders. The web is the first medium without borders. At the moment, interest in foreign news is higher than it's been in memory, and more and more Americans are surfing the web for foreign news sources. According to a recent story on National Public Radio, the website of the UK's Guardian newspaper now has 500,000 regular American users...
...After several hundred pages you feel closed in yourself. You can't read the book without at least one walk in the sunshine. The Hughes brothers have their own misty style, but have chosen to shoot in color. The look of the movie becomes its best asset, exploring the medium's unique possibilities of luminosity, movement and composition. The mint-green of Aberline's absinthe shows up in the color of the lanterns on the Ripper's carriage, among other touches...
...part about this is that in the cases where Jeffry stretches the medium, she achieves absorbing results. One of her most famous photographs, a hyperbolically grainy picture of Orson Welles as King Lear, stands out. A double exposure of the guitarist Sharon Isbin superimposes the guitar on her hair in a manner that, if not entirely original, is pleasing. Perhaps the most enigmatic image of the show is a distorted portrait of Attilio Pierelli, an Italian sculptor, poet, playwright and dentist, shot at an exhibition of his at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York. But these are scattered without effect...
...population of 3 million exuberant Hindus. To the west of Bali, separated by a strait of just several hundred yards, is the island of Java, which is about the size of California, with a population of 100 million Muslims. Stretching east is an archipelago with hundreds of small to medium-sized islands, islands with names like Sumba, Sumbawa, Lombok, Flores, Komodo, the legendary Spice Islands, Timor, and the island of Irian Jaya (New Guinea). These areas have mixed populations of Muslims, Christians, and animists. Virtually every inhabited island in Indonesia has its own language and unique history...