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And here’s the perfect link between two other notable deaths this year, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Dave Dellinger.

Looking at this photo again I think of two things: one, how brilliant the Woody Allen film “Stardust Memories” is that this image is used as a punchline yet it seems completely appropriate and not exploitative, and, two, where are the burned-in-our-retina images of horror and atrocity from our current oversees quagmire in Mesopotamia? Is the preening Andrew “Dice” Clay wanna-be Lyndie England all we get? Somehow that doesn’t seem enough.