Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam has been American official optimism. Years of miserable stalemate have been accompanied by overblown pronouncements from Saigon and Washington about how well the war was going. Credibility gapped in the Johnson Administration, when cant phrases like "turning the corner in Viet Nam" and "light at the end of the tunnel" became bitter jokes. In recent months, however, U.S. officials-backed by scattered reports from perennially skeptical journalists -have cautiously begun to spread word that the situation on the ground in Viet Nam looks better than it has at any time since the U.S. buildup began...
...museum frees the art from connotations of material aspects of culture. The monumental size of the paintings gives them inescapable presence. Once in the room, the viewer cannot change the channel-he must look. The power of an undiluted red surface with stripes of white on each end by Barnett Newman stretches beyond the viewer's field of vision if he stands close. To see the whole he must stand back. By their sheer size the paintings scream for recognition, protesting the decreasing space in an overpopulated world. At first the enormity of the entire 34-room exhibition dwarfs...
...also made three optimistic observations at the end of his statement saying that...
...team-members had to give their pay, which would have been about $100 each, to charity. But at least they get to show off on film. I expect if I am lucky I might see my glove waving in the corner of a rousing-cheer scene, or perhaps the end of the Harvard scarf that was handed out to me (and carefully collected at the end...
...happy this time (after the requisite trials and tribulations). You know this from the very beginning, because the body of the film is a flashback in husband Oliver's mind relating how they fell in love and lived happily married... But you also know that it's going to end sadly because these memories are provoked when a doctor tells him that his wife is going to die of leukemia...