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...were turned away from a busy polling station in Kerada, just south of the Green Zone, where a long line was already forming and were told to go to another center that had been approved for coverage by the media. At polling station number 10, located inside a low-slung primary school, there were more reporters than voters. Journalists captured images of the orderly lines and jostled to photograph the royalist candidate, Sherif Ali, as he arrived with a large armed escort to cast his vote. Security was tight, and every voter was patted down before approaching the ballot boxes...
...uniforms of the attendees wore a light dusting of perspiration by the time the lights dimmed. T-shirts, some silkscreened at home, grew dark under arms and in Roschach-looking blots at the smalls of their backs. Pants slung low by hands buried in pockets gripped waists, made tight by hands turned to fists with anticipation. Shoes (All-Stars, slip-ons, ankle boots, and Asics), well scuffed by summer shows, fidgeted.It was Tuesday night. The bartender downstairs at the Middle East winced under the weight of a crate of Pabst. She passed cans back through the crowdlike buckets...
...Hiroshima, the U.S. and the Soviet Union built thousands of nuclear devices, and the threat of nuclear war kept a political and ideological contest within bounds. Buried in silos in the wheat fields of North Dakota, tucked into the torpedo tubes of Soviet submarines parked in the North Atlantic, slung in the bomb bays of B-52s, the American and Soviet nuclear arsenals mutually assured the destruction of both sides if hostilities commenced. The cold war turned into a long peace...
...could never stop making them again," says Tatyana Jakovskaya, Bersudsky's wife, who met the artist in 1988 when he was still living in Leningrad, in a single room crammed with his sad, mad and satirical moving sculptures. Among them is the 3-m-tall Tower of Babel (1989), slung with flywheels that bring to life scores of tiny wooden figures that frantically turn handles, ring bells or pull each other's strings. From a high pulpit, a tiny Vladimir Lenin urges them on; below, a uniformed Joseph Stalin wields a bloody...
...iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder is the 3-m-tall Tower of Babel (1989), slung with flywheels that bring to life scores of tiny wooden figures that frantically turn handles, ring bells or pull each other's strings. From a high pulpit, a tiny Vladimir Lenin urges them on; below, a uniformed Joseph Stalin wields a bloody ax. Jakovskaya, a theater director, organized his mechanical...