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...tell 'ya, it's crazy with Nixon..." The voice trailed off and continued in a lower tone, indistinguishable amidst the screeching of the trolley. After appearing to listen for several seconds, the driver shouted back with agitation...
When I walked by the now abandoned Congress building, a gardener in blue overalls was walking amidst the statues, tending to the plants. I asked him what he thought of the revolution. His response seemed to reflect the wish of many Santiagoans for a period of simple tranquillity. "Some win, some lose," he said. "But during revolutions, green plants don't get enough water...
...their heavy rocker numbers, a skydiver plummetted. It seemed that his parachute opened a little early, and he drifted over the field. He seemed to be whirling curiously around on his straps, and he landed over a clump of trees behind the stage. Later, three skydivers jumped amidst the lightning with three red flares held in their hands. The next day, the newspapers reported one of the skydivers had been killed, burned to a crisp by his flare before he hit the ground. The only one who seemed out of control, like a dead weight, was the first diver...
...helped channel their emotions into constructive (that is, antiwar) channels. These young men, Lifton suggests, may per form a "prophetic function" among the general population of benumbed sinners. Perhaps so. As far as this book goes, though, what could have been a strong account of men groping for survival amidst the wreckage that Viet Nam left in their lives becomes instead a polemic in which moralizing smothers analysis. *Laurence I. Barrett
...effigies, wild-eyed primitives, coffins full of lethal snakes (phony) and about 1500 natives who move in sequence looking possessed. This scene is so good it is repeated, first as a precredit vignette, and once with Solitaire as the finale. Solitaire is dressed in virginal white, and is led, amidst much kicking and screaming to the place of sacrifice, where she is confronted with a poisonous snake; it will presumably bite her somewhere around her lowcut Empire style bodice. It doesn't. I think they live happily ever after...