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Degas' pragmatic association of photography with death recalls Roland Barthes' far more melodramatic one: "Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death."
The Los Angeles Times and Washington Post lead with the House Judiciary Committee's abrupt decision Thursday to drop (after only two days) President Clinton's 1996 campaign finances from the areas it will consider in its impeachment inquiry.
Wall Street rejoiced at Brazil's perceived courage--the real decision being an abrupt about-face by Brazil's central bank--and the Dow jumped 219 points.
The NYT passes this theory along but spends most of its EgyptAir ink reporting that American crash investigators have been drawn to the role of the relief pilot not just for the reference he made to God shortly before the plane went down, but also because of the abrupt way he took the co-pilot's seat just minutes before the catastrophe.
The transition between heterochromatin and euchromatin appears to be gradual rather than abrupt.