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Hughes' new book of essays, Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America (Oxford University Press), has just been published. Next he'll write and narrate an eight-hour TV series on American art, called American Visions. Working on it, he became fascinated by how little Americans know about their early art and its role in the nation's life. He recalls Adams' contemporary, Thomas Jefferson, admiring the Maison Carree at Nimes in France. Moved by its classical structure, he decided it should be the model for the new capitol in Richmond, Virginia. "Noble, astringent, eloquent," remarks Hughes, "just what...
...Srebrenica by two United Nations truck convoys. Desperate to escape a Serbian blockade, loads of as many as 180 people swarmed aboard the transport vehicles designed to carry sacks of food, unwittingly crushing to death the small and weak in the process. Others died of suffocation during the eight-hour journey to Tuzla. Horrified U.N. officials, already smarting under accusations of abetting the Serb aim of ethnic cleansing by evacuating Muslims, temporarily called off further convoys. There was nothing to dissuade them from their pessimism in the rejection by the Serb nationalist parliament in Bosnia of the Vance-Owen peace...
...They were alive when we passed Edrinjaca," sobbed Hanifa Hajdarovic, whose two children, Senija, 5, and Senad, a babe in arms, did not survive the harrowing, eight-hour passage through Serb lines. "But there was a jolt. I was knocked down, and my children were both crushed. We thought we would be safe if we left Srebrenica...
...these are a makeshift shield at best, often violated and hard to enforce. Olympic skier Patricia Kastle had a restraining order when her former husband shot her. Lisa Bianco in Indiana remained terrified of her husband even after he was sent to jail for eight years. When prison officials granted Alan Matheney an eight-hour pass in March 1989, he drove directly to Bianco's home, broke in and beat her to death with the butt of a shotgun. Last March, Shirley Lowery, a grandmother of 11, was stabbed 19 times with a butcher knife by her former boyfriend...
...subject of a four-night, eight-hour documentary series on PBS. Based on Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer-prizewinning book (with Yergin himself serving as principal commentator), the series uses all the familiar tricks of the TV historian's trade -- old photos and film clips, offscreen narration combined with onscreen talking heads -- to make the subject come alive. Which it does marvelously: The Prize is TV's equivalent of a great read...