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...claim to despise. It is a mutilation of history that one of the first nations to be born of popular revolution is now in the business of smashing popular revolutions all over the world. And it is truly frightening that the man who will whisper in President Reagan's ear for the next four years. Edwin Meese, would tell a national television audience that he would not disclose his plans for intervening in El Salvador, because it would be a good thing if the other nations of the world "went to bed at night, wondering what America is going...
...Hannah isn't ironic because he doesn't look for dualities, but instead goes for the whole damn show. Hannah has some sort of compound eye with an ear to match, and the result is a manic cacophony of life in These United States. His characters comprise the fifth column perpetually looking for salvation in a parking...
...friends, but also some Canadian journalists who worked down the hall. We were blindfolded, stripped of our money and papers, and forced to sit on the floor with our hands clasped behind our heads. "The spies among you will be executed tonight," one guard ominously whispered in my ear. During an hour-long wait for a minibus from the prison, the guards took pleasure in playing with the safety catches of their weapons and murmuring the spot...
...that evening at an Islamic Guards headquarters set up in the late Shah's lavish Saadabad Palace in the northern part of the city, most of the detainees were released. I was not. My questioning had scarcely begun when a guard whispered something into my interrogator's ear. "You are sure?" he replied. "Yes," answered the first. I was blindfolded again and taken to another detention center. The conversation among my guards was chilling: "Tonight? ... What's he done...
...another picture, black-clad climbers struggle up the snowy folds of Mont Blanc looking like a necklace of chocolate chips dropped into a vanilla sundae. Meanwhile, journalistic history is displayed in a set of pictures and captions from the first interview ever recorded (in 1886) for both eye and ear. The cameramen-interviewers are Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, who worked under the single professional name Nadar, and his son Paul. Their subject is Michel-Eugène Chevreul, an elderly scientist and expert on the theory of color mixing. Visible in some frames: a tubular machine that recorded Chevreul...