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...peaceful day in Botswana's Kalahari desert, where the Bushmen live, a Coca-Cola bottle fell from the sky. It must, they thought, be a gift from the gods. But this glass icon brought with it the compulsions of civilization: greed, jealousy, rancor. So the family patriarch determined to take the bottle to the end of the world and drop it off. On his journey he saw the strangest things: beasts with round legs (Jeeps), and a female with strange skins on her back (the village schoolteacher), and a squad of shiftless African guerrillas. The gods must be crazy...
...learned that even the most picayune details of pomp get top-level attention. "At one planning meeting," she reports, "I overheard the chief of Inaugural operations tell White House Adviser Michael Deaver how multicolored confetti could be made to stick to a ballroom floor: spread the floor with Coca-Cola...
...wide vision of history. Joffe has mimicked many of Lean's techniques, achieving a balance between the personal relations of the principals and their place within the larger historical upheaval. In one excellent scene, Schanberg tries to question an American official in a warehouse filled with Coca-Cola. Suddenly a mortar barrage blasts the warehouse of cans into gooey scrap, providing the answers Schanberg needed and a symbol of the tenuousness of the Western presence in Indochina...
...wore more layers than a high-society wedding cake. She gave Ray Arnold a meat-loaf sandwich, a cup of steaming coffee and a piece of her mind. She said it might help the federal deficit if they placed higher taxes on every soft drink but Coca-Cola, which she drinks, and every candy bar but Milky Way, which she favors. Around them, gathering dusk turned the day and the canyon blue, the way it does on snowy landscapes...
...Glory of Their Times is laced with splendid photographs, many taken from the player's personal collections, and others dug up by Ritter at library and newspaper archives across the country. Such illustrations as an early Coca Cola advertisement and the moving endpiece depicting John J. McGraw and Honus Wagner reveal photography at its moving best. The illustrations are worth the price of the book alone...