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...felt secure. Her first apartment, a two-bedroom walk-up in an economically struggling neighborhood in the Far North Side, appeared fine at first, and at $585 a month was in her price range. "It was a relief to not have to duck when I walked by my own window," she says, referring to the stray gunfire that crackled through Cabrini after dark. Nearly anything would be safer than Cabrini, she reasoned. But just two months after she moved in, a vandal torched the building entryway. In the fire and smoke, all her possessions were lost. After enduring several days...
...more subtle symphony in ochre and umber is created by the window of Brown's Custom Shop in Kingsport, Tennessee, photographed in 1985. The wall is brown, the rolls of linoleum on display are lime, orange and teak. But Eggleston's aesthetic also has a puritan streak that goes beyond the garish and distressed to encompass blank white walls and dry grasses...
...occasional sinister theme runs through his panorama of life in the South. A lone axe has been laid down on a barbecue, a gun hangs from a hook. A sign reads "No Loitering Allowed." A man peering from a car window looks like an escaping murderer; another lies face down on the concrete floor of a garage. Eggleston finds beauty in odd things such as the ceremonies of eating, turning salt shakers and ketchup bottles into family groups and exploring the contents of a freezer in 1971 (Frosty Acres Tasty Taters). From mountain majesties to frozen fries, this...
...know, that honoring procedure is out the window for next year,” Wofsy said. McGrath Lewis declined comment on June...
...story: Erica was held for one long night and day in the basement of an empty house, her hands and feet bound with duct tape. She chewed through the tape, kicked open a basement door and made her way to a window where she screamed until someone heard her and came to her rescue. The little girl was plucky, but also lucky. The motive for the kidnapping was not sexual but financial; her abductors asked for a $150,000 ransom, perhaps believing a false neighborhood rumor that Erica's family had received that sum as a life insurance payment after...