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The stunning images of the Antietam dead, lying in ditches where they fell, are the work (published under Brady's name) of his brilliant assistants Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan.
The dry ditches in front, however, date from the 1650s.
Tom Waits' first album in six years, which ditches the junkyard noise experimentation of his previous releases for a blues approach, gets passable reviews from Rolling Sone and Spin . "Waits seems to have peaked as a songwriter with 1985's Rain Dogs ," writes Ben Ratliff, "and he's still writing outtakes from that record" ( Rolling Stone ). Spin 's Sarah Vowell says, "Waits' coolie raps often feel a little fake, like he's working at having a good time."
We see "inspections" of nude candidates for the gas chambers, women and children shot beside ditches, rapes, people herded into freight cars--all enacted by lifelike dolls.
Households were considered to have engaged in multiple mosquito protection measures if at least three of the following measures were reportedly used: coils, bednets, screening of windows and eaves, repellents, clearing debris from drains and ditches, burning of organic material, or insecticides.