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...once spent weeks interviewing Palestinians in villages up and down the West Bank. From the vantage point of highly traditional Palestinian village life, America looks very much like the chaotic, menacing New York City that Rocker described. The Palestinians were disgusted by America's entropy, its social breakdown, its sex and drugs. Do these Palestinians, with their strongly held allegience to traditional morality, to respect for elders and conventional marriage, require "sensitivity training...
...chaotic era, and William of Normandy, born around 1027, was the child of chaos. The illegitimate son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, he was known for most of his life as William the Bastard. Robert eventually recognized him, but only as he departed on a fatal pilgrimage to the Holy Land, leaving his seven-year-old a target for usurping barons. One by one, William's guardians and advisers were cut down. The boy escaped assassination only by a desperate flight to his mother's estate...
...scenes shift as Helen's life proceeds; the intensity of chaotic readings of two poems at once in between scenes marking time and the growing intensity of Helen's eventual departure into insanity. The maternity scene is almost too experimental and strange; while the doctors are supposed to reflect robots, again, emotion creeps into the scene and destroys the rhythm between the dialogue and actors machine-like movements. Similarly, Helen's descent into the underworld, replete with an affair, does not reflect a change of emotional intensity but continues the linear progression of a dissatisfied woman. No new miseries...
Brent B. Coffin, executive director of the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, introduced McLennan last night, remarking that Finding Your Religion had an important message in an increasingly chaotic time...
...base just outside Gudermes listening to the steady rumble of heavy artillery and long salvos of Grad missiles. "We could establish the capital on this hill if we were told to." We are informed confidentially that a high-level delegation from Moscow will be flying in. But a brief, chaotic visit to the town underscores the difficulties that the Russian armed forces are having administering even an ostensibly friendly town...