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...Hope.'' The sun slid down and the green water grew dark, and kingfishers rode the air in search of supper. Now and again another boat passed, and the people smiled and waved, smiled and waved. In the morning we crossed the river on a ferry, passing two rusted American armor-plated patrol boats moored to a . banana tree. In the Ashau Valley, denuded today, Dave fell silent. After some time, he said, ''A lot of good guys bought it here.'' We looked for Hamburger Hill, where 242 of them bought it in a week. Once, a rocket-propelled
Cities are hardly spaces in which one is made to feel at home. A bird’s eye view of the traveling routes that mold the city would show a human ant trail of Wall Street armor, lost tourists, and trendy hipsters. The financial analyst’s brow is lined by the latest economic woes. The leader of the tourist group is dismayed at having boarded the express train rather than the local. The hipster is fretfully correcting the tilt of his trilby hat. When someone is caught in the subway door, the disinterested glances of his fellow...
...master of the old-fashioned technique of special-effects makeup--in which spirit gum, plaster casts and armor work, not computer fiddling, do the trick--Winston wanted more than audiences' screams. Often he earned their sympathy, as in the baleful, soulful face and kitchen-cutlery fingers of Edward Scissorhands and the mandroid smoothness of the robo-gigolo in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. "I don't do special effects," Winston said. "I do characters...
...McCain campaign sees Obama's resistance to the idea of weekly town halls as a weak spot in his "change we can believe in" armor. Obama's July 4 counterproposal "is a joke," says Steve Schmidt, a senior McCain adviser. "What they are doing is saying one thing and acting in a different...
...robot Teddy in A.I.-another melancholy mandroid in the Scissorhands style-and, just this year, the suit that Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark fashions in Iron Man. Stark's basement laboratory might have been Winston's workshop; the dedication and ingenuity Stark lavished on his jet-propelled armor were worthy of Stan the Man himself...