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Bleeding or dazed, some people wandered aimlessly out of the Coliseum. Some fled wildly across the ice, slipping and skidding as they tried to escape. Others clawed with their bare hands to drag away 500-lb. blocks of concrete that pinned people in the wreckage. The auditorium, brilliantly illuminated by spotlights, echoed with screams of the injured-some lying helplessly trapped beneath bodies of the dead. A man walked about asking everyone he saw, "Where's my kids? Where's my kids...
...nuclear experts and modern warfare men, however, were appalled. They insist that France's nuclear force will be only a deterrent, or else a last-gasp weapon; if they fail to deter, and France is falling, then and only then are the bombers to be used to drag the attacker under with France. They cannot be used on routine, tit-for-tat bombing missions as the war games suggested. As for the frantic, 15-weapon battlefield broadside, so lavish a use of atomic weapons in so small an area (particularly on French soil) amounted to nothing more than...
Abel's critique of Our Lady of the Flowers, recently translated into English, is an extraordinary example of how to treat a highly sexual fragment of literature. "Genet's prose is almost always dressed up--often in drag," Abel says of the homosexual writer. "Sartre himself has called attention to the ornateness with which Genet in A Thief's Journal writes of Bulksen's behind: 'Son posterieur etait un reposoir.' ('His behind was an altar...
Davletbay Khodzhabov's Cossack riders provide the most spectacular display. Six of them in red jackets and high white hats race around the ring, swinging from side to side, picking up flags, and holding on with their feet as their arms drag on the ground, while a seventh stands in the center cracking a long leather bullwhip...
...busy week, both frustrating and fruitful, with more of the same in the offing. Though the Secretary's wife had hoped to drag him away for an evening at the Russian circus in Madison Square Garden, in the end she had to go without him. In fact, except for one evening when they had a quiet dinner at the Swiss Pavilion, the Rusks hardly saw each other...