Word: broodingness
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What do the militant Muslims really want? This question, which began to vex the West with special urgency as the Iranian revolution unfolded, piqued the curiosity of V.S. Naipaul. Instead of simply clucking in wonder, he decided to look for an answer at the source. He mapped out a six...
Sadat was a noble man with a passion for peace. One day I sat with him in the study of the modest sandstone house that he used in Aswan. As occasionally happened, Sadat was brooding about something or other, puffing on his pipe. One could see the dhows on the...
The movie begins at sundown in Oberwald. Soldiers patrol the castle grounds in search of Sebastian (Franco Branciaroli), the would-be assassin. The film stock looks grainy, murky, like a kinescope of some 1948 "Kraft Television Theater" production. Afterimages cast a split-second shadow on every movement. Then a sound...
Twenty years later, it still scars the mind-gray and brooding, the 103-mile-long concrete barrier known universally as the Wall. Willy Brandt was mayor of West Berlin when the East Germans sealed the border virtually overnight. Last week, in its own schizophrenic way, the city that incarnates all...
And now the writer is going to excuse himself. Ben & Jerry's, in Vermont, is only 2½ hours away. Steve's new place in Northampton, Mass., may be a little nearer, although there is traffic to consider. Bob's Famous in Washington is not out of...