Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is so is mystifying. The charity level among children who suffer economic hardship is not noticeably high; yet they, like many of the Cambodian children and the Vietnamese to follow, have been starved, brutalized, deprived of companionship, parents, love. It may have something to do with the suddenness of these assaults. Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb. They simply may not have the time to seethe or develop their hatreds. For them...
...surprised by anything." Contact Partner David Burnett, 34, understood this when he went to Cambodia to photograph refugees. "It is easy to make pictures of people starving," he says "I wanted to take a picture that people would look at again." His shot of a weary and resigned Cambodian refugee holding an infant was an expressionist masterpiece that was judged the best photograph in 1980 by the World Press Photo Association...
...Three Cambodian heads gazed nobly at the reader from the glossy cover of Arts of Asia, an elegant and respected bi-monthly published in Hong Kong. The sandstone faces, 900-year-old survivors of the fabled Khmer kingdom of Angkor, had been chosen to set the theme of a recent issue devoted to antique Cambodian art, a high-priced passion among collectors around the world. Few readers knew that the images on the cover had been given new noses and restorative face-lifts by a young Thai artist known simply as Yas. Or that Yas, in his busy, unnamed shop...
...centuries have done to the originals. "When you break the neck off," he explains with professional pride, "it must look natural." He heats the sculpture with a hair dryer, paints it with a secret chemical solution, and buries it for two weeks in his backyard, often in Cambodian soil that he has imported through refugees at the Thai-Cambodian border...
...compulsion of another sort drives Schism (Crown; 310 pages; $12.95), by Bill Granger. Father Leo Tunney, a Roman Catholic missionary and sometime CIA operative, totters back to civilization from the Cambodian jungle, where he has been missing for 20 years. Why? Before shipping him back to his order in Florida, the Company does its unsubtle best to pry the answer from the emaciated priest. Back home, Tunney attracts a lot of professional interest. There is a top KGB operative from Moscow, a sacerdotal snooper from the Vatican, a cold-blooded loner from...