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Belisle describes himself as a "burnt out" case. The condition is familiar to child-abuse workers, whose divorce rate is above the national average. They suffer a notably high proportion of nervous breakdowns. After a few years on the job, many leave the service to earn a living in totally different fields in order to escape the tension and responsibility. Belisle, at least, still works for the protective service. But he does not go out on cases. He sits at the phone in the screening room. Phone work, screening incoming reports on child abuse, is at least one remove from...
...Other Stories of several years ago. Here, in a disjointed narrative, he gives a low-key, comic and rather appealing picture of "the Screwery," a band of romantic South American revolutionaries based in France. As the book commences, they are subverting the Establishment by filling new cigarette packages with burnt-out butts, and smuggling cartons of the fakes into bars and tobacco shops to be sold as the real thing. They progress to grimmer matters, among them the kidnaping of a South American police official...
...Jerusalem ... Who would have imagined that one day Sadat would describe us as his enemy and Begin as his friend?" Arafat, whose organization will presumably be pushed toward increased guerrilla activity by the Camp David agreement, declared: "As for Sadat, the traitor who sold Jerusalem for a few burnt sands of the Sinai, he is doomed...
Days of Heaven is lush with brilliant images. Set in the Texas Panhandle just before World War I, this movie unleashes one spectacular panorama after another: snowy plains aglow in the blue light of a winter moon, wheatfields shimmering under a burnt autumn sun, expansive skies carpeted with cumulus clouds. There is enough beauty here for a dozen movies; yet the total effect is far from pretty. Slowly but surely the sharp images carve away at the audience's guts...
...like napalm, it was an inferno," said a French visitor from Toulouse who had been washing dishes in a trailer that was spared at the edge of the camp. "People were running everywhere, screaming, some of them on fire." More than 100 were killed on the spot, most burnt beyond recognition. Another 150 or more lay writhing in the havoc, grotesquely scorched. In all, the fire storm that devastated Los Alfaques had killed 144 by week's end, and left some 75 injured, many critically. Not since a pair of jumbo jets collided and caught fire on a runway...