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Along the bumpy roads leading from the Iraqi border to Khorramshahr, trees and broken telephone poles are strewn alongside the wreckage of burnt vehicles. At Khorramshahr's gutted railroad station, Iraqi soldiers use wall portraits of Ayatullah Khomeini for target practice. At the huge port sprawling along the Shatt al Arab, stacks of mammoth loading containers, stripped of their spoils by Iraqi invaders, are tangled with rusted steel pipes and charred, broken cranes. In makeshift barracks built under pylons, a few off-duty soldiers nap or thumb through magazines to pass the idle time...
...intellectual conflicts. This is the familiar yet urgent condition of the modernist tradition into which Milosz was thrust by history. As he wrote in Mid-Twentieth-Century Portrait (1945): "Keeping one hand on Marx's writings, he reads the Bible in private./ His mocking eye on processions leaving burnt-out churches./ His backdrop: a horseflesh-colored city in ruins...
...American reality have been stunningly varied, as Richard Lingeman makes definitively clear in his new history, Small Town America. Lingeman stalks the dream and the reality from colonial days to the present, from Town Builder William Penn's hope for "a green country town, which will never be burnt, and always be wholesome" to the prepackaged sterility of some of today's contrived "new towns." Factory towns, farm towns, railroad towns, cow towns, mining towns, all march through his book. "New England towns with white churches and elm-arched streets ... fugitive transient towns with their tacked-on names...
Cattlemen in Kansas and Missouri are selling off their herds because of burnt pastures and a shortage of feed. Farther north, the Dakotas and eastern Montana have been enduring a drought for almost a year. In Montana, range lands were devastated, and crop losses were estimated at up to 90%. Worst off: winter and spring wheat, barley, oats...
UNLIKE MANY RECENT American movies, which often leave behind the sour aftertaste of burnt pizza, cute French petit-fours such as Coup de Tete impart no flavor at all. They slide down smoothly, provincial realism and honest emotion buried beneath the sweet, slick icing of a clever plot and anti-bourgeois humor...