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...couldn't have felt as simpatico with more recent "hardware" musicals - all those flying chandeliers and whirring helicopters. (He pointedly left the chopper out of his "Miss Saigon" drawing.) But Hirschfeld was no Luddite; he was ever open to the Next Thing. As Anais Nin apostrophized to a lover in "Henry and June": "There will never be darkness because in both of us there's always movement, renewal, surprises. I have never known stagnation." Hirschfeld was anti-stagnation too. Like his thin pen-lines, he was lithe, blithe and on the move...
...fishing is kept low impact: anglers must use barbless hooks and release every catch. At the end of the day, when Craig's blue-and-white chopper whup-whups up the valley to lift you off the sandbar, only your bootprints remain. And you take home nothing but a tired casting arm and the memory of some of the greatest fly-fishing you will ever experience...
...fellow grunts clambered down the chopper's ramp, Perez realized that they had basically flown into a gigantic stadium and scrambled out, vulnerable and exposed, in the home team's end zone. From up in the grandstands--the half-mile-high mountains ringing them on three sides--an unknown number of al-Qaeda fighters began peppering the Americans with AK-47 fire. Operation Anaconda had just begun--and Perez and his comrades were already playing defense...
...everybody?" Grippe yelled at him over the roar of the turbines. For the first time that day, Perez had his doubts. He scampered into the darkness and surveyed the area with his night-vision goggles one more time. Finding no Americans, he ran back to the chopper just before it lifted off. Maroyka had to hand it to the sergeant who had stepped into his role. "We all had a bit of fear, but everybody did his job, and the one who did his job more than anybody was Sergeant Perez," he says...
...shot dead by Massoud's guards while trying to escape. Khalili believes he was saved by his passport, which was in his left breast pocket--eight pieces of shrapnel were found embedded in it. Dashty remembers being rushed to a helicopter with Massoud, who had terrible wounds. The chopper flew them both to a hospital in Tajikistan. By the time they arrived, Massoud was dead...