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On the Beach

Posted May 13th, 2010 by Lesley Hazleton

Posed?  Unposed?  Shades of the end of Kubrick’s ‘2001’?   Is there some special irony in the fact that part of Nevil Shute’s post-nuclear-apocalypse novel ‘On the Beach‘ took place in an abandoned oil refinery near Seattle?

Here:  oil-spill clean-up workers suited up  yesterday at Dauphin Island, Alabama.

Photo:  Michael Appleton, New York Times

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File under: ecology | Tagged: Tags: clean-up, oil spill, Stanley Kubrick | 2 Comments
  1. Pietra says:
    May 14, 2010 at 7:18 am

    New York Times? Posed? “Wag the Dog”? I’ll never forget the “bread line in Russia” photo. I couldn’t stop staring at it and finally getting out my magnifying glass. Every single person in that line was wearing fur and/or well-tailored clothing.

  2. Kathleen says:
    May 14, 2010 at 11:05 am

    Wow! The photo came out great! And the built-in links, plus meta tags for later topic-searching… you are really making this site interesting, Leslie!

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