Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world, the U.S. has discovered that it cannot control the government it so massively finances and protects in Saigon. Neither the Soviet Union nor Communist China can control Hanoi. At least for a brief time, no one could control either the Syrians or the fedayeen in the Jordanian desert last week. There is, in fact, no way to check the long-term forces for change in most of the world's developing nations. When those changes promise a better life for more people, the U.S. might do well to support those forces, regardless of ideology. In fact, America's chief...
...same camp the guerrillas are believed to be holding $650,000 in U.S. bills that Swissair last week admitted had been aboard its skyjacked plane. When the guerrillas found out about the money by reading the craft's loading sheet, they marched the plane's captain into the desert, held guns to his temples and forced him to tell them where...
...needle dripping sodium pentathlon into her arm.... When that failed she imagined herself driving, conceived audacious lane changes, strategic shifts of gear, the Hollywood to the San Bernardino and straight out, past Barstow, past Baker, driving straight on into the hard white empty core of the world." Again, the desert. It all leads back to the nothing that is desert...
...insidiously effective as the painless touch of the anesthetist's needle she herself describes. Her sentences, pared down bone clean, are chilling in their authority. She tells her story so quickly, so mercilessly, there is simply no disputing what she finds. Her prose almost seems a function of the desert of which she writes-every superfluous gesture, as if in deference to the overwhelming heat, the sun and shifting sands, eliminated. And although the novel's action takes place in L. A., and a good deal of the rest in Vegas, there is no denying their common foundation...
Which is out there on the desert looking east with Marion Faye. For BZ is Joan Didion's updated version of Norman Mailer's Marion. Like Marion, BZ is homosexual. Yet he has all the accounrements to make it in the world Maria can no longer handle: he's a film producer; his body is fine and tan; and his mother, Carlotta, twice divorced and $35 million to her name, even sees fit to keep him provided with a present, if rarely loving, wife. But perhaps just because he knows he has made it, just as Maria knows...