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...explosion would be bad enough for the U.S. and other industrialized countries. The pain would be far worse for the financially strapped countries of the developing world. Some of the nations needing the largest amount of assistance are Turkey, South Korea and Brazil, which have already climbed up from abject poverty and now desperately need imported oil to fuel their industrialization...
...tanks and armored cars to the front. TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark visited the scene while the fighting was still going on. "Thousands of refugees were fleeing down the road," he reported, "and many others squatted in the water of the overflowing rice paddies, the picture of abject misery. 'Well, we're on the move again,' said one Khmer. Herders, many of them carrying shotguns, drove bunches of cattle down the roads and across the fields, spurred by the whooshing sounds of Thai howitzer shells passing overhead...
...American Clock, premiering at the Charleston, S.C., Spoleto Festival, Arthur Miller is picking up the pieces of a national trauma. The shock waves of the '29 crash and the ensuing Great Depression stunned families, businesses and an entire society, engulfing them in anguish, fear, hopeless unemployment and abject despair. The tremors are still felt...
...idealistic seminarian, Mark Dolson (Eric Roberts). In its simplest terms, this is the perennial skirmish between youth and age, between those who have seen too little and those who have seen too much, between those who want to change the world radically and those who have made their abject peace with principalities and powers...
...unavailable to the casual eye. What come through most sharply in the photographs is an immediacy and potency of detail, an aura of enchanted concreteness radiating from the most ordinary places and things--the raw blue color of gravel, a shallow driveway, the symmetrical vacancies of parking lots, the abject curve in the necks of street lamps...