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...well-know that the Minerals Management Service of the Interior Department is the second largest source of income to the U.S. government. Last year, it was revealed that employees of this office were routinely taking money and having sexual relationships with oil company executives. According to The Wall Street Journal, government employees were also given illegal recreational drugs. There is really nothing wrong with any of that if it does not cost the Treasury any money, but apparently it has. Leases with oil companies which pay royalties to the U.S. government may have been affected. The total amount of money...
After the five photographs at the entrance of the gallery, the viewer passes into the main room, where fifteen video screens cover the back wall. Fourteen of these, all featuring interviews with widows, surround one large screen with footage of the same beach scene. The sound of waves permeates the entire gallery, interrupted occasionally by the melancholy note of a violin...
...fourteen chairs placed in the middle of the gallery. Each chair comes with a set of headphones and a written English translation of the interview (originally in French). Arranged in a square, the pattern of the chairs mirrors the display of the interviews on the wall so that one faces the widow head on. It is as if Varda has invited the viewer to the widows’ table, into the secret realities of their daily lives. Varda never appears on the screen when questioning, so as not to disturb the intimate, seemingly direct conversation between viewer and widow...
...women stopped screaming, the soldiers zip-cuffed the young man and led him into the street. They made him kneel against a wall and swabbed his hands and pockets for residual explosive materials. The test came up positive. Back in the house, a sergeant pointed this out to the young man's father, who continued to insist that there had been some mistake. "But we saw him, too, guy," said the sergeant...
After Christine Ross moved into a brand new home on the southwestern fringe of Albuquerque last fall, she and her three-year-old sharpei-labrador mix, Ruca, went for a walk nearly every evening. Usually, they would venture inside a cinderblock wall where the spiny desert scrub had been smoothed over in preparation for a housing development that never materialized. That's where they were walking a month ago when Ruca spotted what to a dog is considered a treasure: a bone jutting from the sandy soil. Ross had an uneasy feeling about the find, however. She snapped a photograph...