Word: crucifix
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Leinlein's terrible and innocent eyes each episode is murderously dissected. Papa eats like a pig while Mama throws up into her napkin with revulsion. Grandmama is a steely old Nazi who relives the past by driving more nails into the crucifix above her bed. Since no one in the family will recognize Leinlein's lameness, every outing is a walk to Calvary at the end of which the child's feet are cut and bleeding; his elders' reaction is to abuse him for his weakness. Detail upon horrifying detail is piled with detachment and cold...
...next day 1,200 Red troops invaded Binhgia, a prosperous, palm-shaded agricultural community only 40 miles southeast of Saigon. Setting up headquarters in the village church, after first shooting off its crucifix, the Reds opened up with deadly fire on 1,000 counterattacking Rangers and Marines. Air-dropped into a nearby field, 175 government troops were ambushed from heavy foliage; those not killed were captured, among them the unit's two U.S. advisers. Of 49 U.S. helicopters taking part in the battle, four were shot down -one in flames, killing its four U.S. crewmen...
...Have love as you do this thing," cooed Folk Singer Joan Baez, "and it will succeed." It was a battle cry, not a ballad. Marching behind their Joan of Arc, who was wearing a jeweled crucifix, a thousand undergraduates of the University of California at Berkeley stormed four-story Sproul Hall, the school's administration building. For 15 hours they camped in the corridors, whanged guitars, played jacks, watched Charlie Chaplin movies. Stairwells be came "freedom" classrooms. An alcove was a kitchen where coeds made thousands of sandwiches for the all-night siege. The school had locked the bath...
...second fusillade that killed six in the throng, wounded twelve. In the stunned aftermath, the mob picked up a dead 17-year-old boy, laid him along a barbed-wire fence. His mother pushed his tongue back into his mouth and closed his eyes; others draped a crucifix around his neck and a Vietnamese flag over his body. Khanh emerged expressing sorrow, and pleaded, "Please go back to your homes. This is an affair of state...
...pair with guitars, tambourines and castanets. Irene's father-inlaw, Prince Xavier de Borbon y Parma, as gaunt and straight-backed as an El Greco grandee, arranged a brief interview with Pope Paul VI, who gave the newlyweds his personal blessing and their first wedding present-a crucifix. No reigning monarchs attended the wedding, but the guests included such ghost royalty as Austria's ex-Empress Zita and Portugal's Duke of Braganza. Emotionally the Roman weekly L'Espresso addressed an open letter to Irene telling her "you are like a lamb caught...