Word: deserts
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Fortunately -- and this is a real luxury for magazine journalists -- we could wait until the war was over, and events began to move into historical perspective, before we sent the chapters off to press. The result of these efforts is Desert Storm: The War in the Persian Gulf, a 240-page hardback volume that began appearing in bookstores last week. The book, which is being published by the Time Inc. Book Co. and distributed by Little, Brown and Co., contains 129 color and black-and-white illustrations, many of which have never been published...
Friedrich, whose 12th book, a portrait of Paris in the time of the artist Edouard Manet, will be published next spring, found that TIME's traditional blend of detail and analysis served him well on Desert Storm. "I edited the book much the same way I have edited at TIME," he says. "There's a different time frame, and the chapters are longer than a TIME article, but the essential spirit of the thing is the same: the attitude of reasonably objective observers describing what we have seen or learned." And, we might add, enjoying the luxury of sufficient time...
...sense of family and corresponding feelings of guilt at having left her and their two daughters behind also helped cement the relationship. "I have often wondered whether any kind of commitment can ever be sufficient excuse for abandoning a young and inexperienced woman in a pitiless desert," he wrote in another letter...
...moon to rise; with time-lapse photography he Frisbees it into the sky. He tells the history of Western expansion in one minute, with subtitles and sound effects. And he isn't satisfied with man or nature. Flames of neon lick the clouds; an electric fan helps cool the desert...
...Powell quietly assigned Lieut. General Calvin A.H. Waller to Schwarzkopf's staff "to act as a calming influence" on the volatile Desert Storm commander...