Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rifles, tanks, armored personnel carriers and F-104 Starfighters from the U.S., the King was well prepared for an all-out war against what Premier Tal described as guerrilla "terror, brutality and sabotage." The government ordered the fedayeen to move to a stretch of flat, waterless desert toward the Iraqi border. The fedayeen stayed put-as the government expected-and the army moved...
...intent was to make a "realistic" western in which a little sporadic violence would uncoil naturally, like a rattler surprised during a desert snooze. The time is about 1880 and the place is a sleazy little ghost town in New Mexico country. Three drifters-Collings (Fonda), Harris (Warren Gates) and Dan (Robert Pratt)-drift into it. Dan is gunned down by a mean, sneaky killer named McVey (Severn Darden). Collings and Harris push on to the farm of the wife Collings had deserted six years before. The wife, Hannah (Verna Bloom), takes on the pair as hired hands...
...farm four miles from the course in 1966. "Lee used to jog to work to keep his legs in shape," recalls Don Whittington, then a co-owner of Horizon City. "Even in those days, he had very definite ambitions to become a great golfer." Trevino played the gusty desert course with Spartan regularity. When winds of up to 60 m.p.h. kicked up the sand, he donned scuba-diver goggles and kept swinging. Impressed by his determination, Whittington and his partner paid Trevino's plane fare to the 1966 U.S. Open in San Francisco. Playing with an unmatched bag of clubs...
Voids and Pressures. A crazy house in the desert-dominated by enormous biblical presences, voids and the threat of war-is perhaps the only place where discussion of Hitlerism and the Jews can be conducted any longer; the grim documentaries have become self-defeating by repetition, the outrage exhausted by its own weight. Appropriately, therefore, Adam Resurrected is centered on a flossy insane asylum near the Dead...
...much for temporal hell remembered. Stein's present haven is an institute established by an eccentric Cleveland widow persuaded that God was conceived in the desert by prophets who were themselves psychotics. As a fanatic inmate explains: "We were a nation, a nation that betrayed its God. And we paid the highest price possible -we became smoke and ashes." And all those who returned are, in Kaniuk's idiosyncratically mordant view, insane. During the day they live well. They are allowed to work, make money, build houses, enjoy the illusion of progress. But at night they have nightmares...