Word: eyewitnesser
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Fortunately, as the reception of Platoon shows, there is a market for the truth. Writer-Director Stone was there, for a 15-month tour which won him two wounds, a silver star and the memories he now brings to paying audiences. There have been other powerful films about Vietnam, including...
The suggestion of high-level Mexican involvement apparently surfaced during the investigation of the February 1985 torture-murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. Last week a Mexican law-enforcement official, Mario Martinez- Herrera, was indicted by a San Diego grand jury looking into the Camarena case. A...
Perfect. Perfect has always been the problem. By today's movie conventions, Weaver, 36, is too gorgeous to be ordinary, too smart to be sexy, too sensible to be interesting. Hollywood lusts for the diseased oyster these days, not the pearl. And so, while notching a worthy stage career on...
Early travelers tended to emphasize wonders at the expense of precision, secure in the belief that no one would make the same arduous journey simply to contradict them. A colleague of Magellan's reported a strange sight in Patagonia: "One day, without anyone expecting it, we saw a giant, who...
Soviet newspapers last week were full of fresh reports about the Chernobyl accident. A story in Pravda, the Communist Party daily, quoted the eyewitness account of a control-room worker who described hearing two loud explosions and then seeing a fireball rise above the reactor building. Many stories strained to...