Word: beirutization
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...Flight 73 was by no means the most protracted or lethal of the terrorist attacks that have plagued the world's airlines for more than 15 years. Over the long term, it will probably be less vividly remembered than last year's hijacking of TWA Flight 847 to Beirut, which lasted 17 days, even though that episode resulted in the death of only one passenger, vs. at least 17 on the Pan Am jet at Karachi. But the latest hijacking was particularly dispiriting, coming as it did after months of relative calm. Gradually, many government and airline officials had convinced...
...group of radical Lebanese Shi'ites in June 1985 commandeered the plane after it had departed from Athens, and demanded the release of about 700 comrades held by Israel. The hijackers freed some hostages as the Boeing 727 shuttled between Lebanon and Algeria before setting down at the Beirut airport. There the hijackers and their captives were guarded by Shi'ite security forces, and a military rescue operation was ruled out. After the hijackers dispersed the remaining hostages to secret locations in Beirut, complex negotiations among the U.S., Israel and Syria led to the release of the Shi'ite prisoners...
Photojournalists tend to stay aloof from talk about camera aesthetics. Something about dodging gunfire in Beirut seems to discourage ruminations on style -- understandably enough. More to the point, no one who catalogs bloodshed and catastrophe wants to be thought of as one more vendor to the senses. Some news photographers spend half their lives chasing war, so who can blame them if, when they hear the word art, they make for the door...
...echo the facts. The coherent images of classic photojournalism carry an implied message, namely that life is cogent even in the midst of catastrophe; that while events may be terrible, the human dilemma holds a familiar shape. The atrocities of Lebanon can shake that faith. In a place like Beirut, throwing aside design is no less a moral gesture than the tenderest lighting of "concerned photography...
These days, to judge from its appearance in No Surrender, Liverpool looks like Beirut without the palm trees. The streets are grizzled; the council flats could have been designed by the architect for Attica; the Charleston Club, a night spot where most of the film's action unspools, is a little triumph of dejected bad taste. Young predators attack a blind pensioner or prowl parking lots in search of black mischief. And the police are apt to break into the wrong home and leave the place a shambles. Seems it happens all the time. "We'll get a carpenter straight...