1. At Dachau, he photographed a soldier taking a picture of a young woman in front of the gallows, as if she were posing before the Eiffel Tower. 2. But Boies was more circumspect when the same query was posed before the microphones on the courthouse steps. 3. But tourists still flock to ground zero to stare at death and pose before the skeletal remains for souvenir snapshots. 4. His signature cigar cocked, the Court Painter posed before his latest work, a life-size charcoal of Mike Tyson and George Foreman, whose fists were cocked. 5. Maybe that is an idea posed before its time, not quite ready to ride yet. 6. Most of his subjects had little experience posing before a camera, he says, but this offered him some artistic freedom. 7. Posing before a full-length mirror in a comfortable dressing room trying on clothes in an adult, slightly narcissistic version of playing dress-up has appeal indeed. 8. Smiling tourists will pose themselves before piles of pedigreed rubble in various states of decomposition. 9. So it was easy for Reyna to blithely ignore the bigger picture that the snapshot of Iranian and American players posing together before the match represented. 10. The Soviet system, which sought to pose before the world as a model of progress, democracy, peaceful nature, humanism and culture, had been discredited. |