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Caroline, who eventually reveals why she refused to divulge much about her past, is as much a device as a character: a convenient way for Ms. Soule does her best to give this cipher some flesh-and-blood specificity.

In Chelle Ms. Though the play crackles with humor, Ms. The characters tend to spell out their emotions in neat aphorisms, and repeat them as necessary. Amid the fire and looting and the audio and video clips of the Michigan governor George W. Romney and President Lyndon B. Johnson, a narrower plot takes shape, a real-life horror movie folded into a baggier film that feels, by turns, like a combat picture, a cavalry western, a police procedural and a courtroom drama.

The fates of a collection of black and white Detroiters as well as two unlucky visitors from Ohio converge at a motel on the west side of the city. Smith , are looking for a little fun after a disappointing evening at the Fox Theater downtown. Down the hall is Greene Anthony Mackie , a soldier just back from Vietnam. A few blocks away, Melvin Dismukes Mr. Boyega , a black security guard protecting a grocery store, brings coffee to a group of National Guardsmen, a gesture of diplomacy as well as self-protection.

Meanwhile, three patrolmen cruise the city. One of them, Krauss Mr. And there are three superb little exquisite corpse drawings that Kahlo made with her friend Lucienne Bloch when they escaped Detroit for a visit to New York City. Rosenthal does in the catalog.

A mesmerizing if slightly bombastic combination of heroic reality and nebulous idealism, and of friezes of figures alternating with deep vistas, the frescoes depicted Ford Motor Company blast furnaces and assembly lines; research scientists in their laboratories at Parke-Davis later Pfizer and workers trudging to and from factories.

Nature is conjured not only by the robust female nudes but also in geological strata showing iron-ore formation and, in one of the best small panels, as black chunks of disease destroying crepuscular living cells. December, AM 6. Join Date Jun Posts 3, Originally Posted by dtowncitylover. December, AM 7.

Join Date Mar Posts 5, December, AM 8. Originally Posted by Bham Why would they show boring, "normal" neighborhoods that could be anywhere in the U. That wouldn't make for a very compelling photo essay.

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