Word: across
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a cheer the demonstrators leave their huddle on the edge of the marsh and move out across it, a tough passage even at low tide. The sun is up, the only sign of police is the circling helicopter, there seem to be lots of protesters, and you are high and nervous...
Sunday, just because you have to do something, you decide on another assault, this time through the woods and across a road. It's chaos and no one knows who is going where, and so everyone goes the wrong place, down a suicide alley where the police wait with two cans of Mace apiece. A little fence is cut, a few people even reach the other side, and pretty soon you're retreating backwards, trying to doctor Mace victims and to keep singing and hold hands and walk-not-run, and the police are right behind you. They have their...
...Ramones themselves--bird-like Joey, Johnny with the hair over his eyes, and the other two--steal this scene, and the others they're in. They come across as comical, friendly, even beneficent, despite the leather and fake frozen sneers. A full-fledged Ramones movie starring the band--a sort of latter-day Hard Day's Night--would have made a lot more sense than what director Allan Arkush has given...
...Paris in January. After the issue of the demilitarized zone between North and South Viet Nam was settled (we agreed that the zone is a provisional military demarcation between two parts of Viet Nam-thus recognizing the separate entity of South Viet Nam; no movement was to be permitted across the DMZ by military units, but civilian movement through it would be negotiated), there remained primarily the theological issue of how to sign the documents so that Saigon did not have to acknowledge the Communist-front Provisional Revolutionary Government. We devised a formula according to which neither Saigon...
Perhaps the most bitterly disputed episode of a bitterly disputed war is the decline and fall of Cambodia. In March, with Prince Sihanouk traveling in France, anti-Vietnamese riots began to erupt across Cambodia. Prime Minister Lon Nol and Deputy Prime Minister Sirik Matak ousted Sihanouk, who there upon took refuge in Peking and turned against the U.S. Kissinger 's critics argue that the U.S. engineered Sihanouk's downfall and later, by attacking the North Vietnamese sanctuaries, caused the war to engulf all of Cambodia and to ensure victory for the Communist Khmer Rouge. Kissinger maintains with much...