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...engulfed in the frightening adoration that he ignited. Hitler's car moved slowly; his bodyguards in other vehicles patrolled at the sides, automatic weapons laid out on the car floors. The bareheaded Hitler, so ordinary a man in himself, seemed transformed. "The nonchalant flip of the hand and a faint smile acknowledged the tributes," Helms recalls. "Even little children spontaneously shot out their arms." The bright sun glanced off the red Nazi flags hanging everywhere...
THAT was before he travelled to the Sudan, before he saw real deprivation on a societal scale, embodied in one emaciated young girl. Later on, he recalled she was "a skeleton of a person with a thin layer of brown skin on her, who had just a faint breath of life...
...hostage scenario has become numbingly familiar. The sadistic videotapes of frightened captives, followed by threats of execution. The White House dispatching naval fleets or listening for some faint reply down a clogged diplomatic channel to the Middle East. Last week it was George Bush's turn to try urgent appeals and gunboat maneuvers while an angry public fulminated at American impotence. Just six months in office, Bush had become the third U.S. President in a row caught in the same wretched predicament. The latest hostage crisis, however, yielded a gruesome new image of horror: a man, bound and gagged, dangling...
...that, purifying plastic is no easy trick. Six months ago, for example, Continental Can began making detergent bottles from recycled milk containers. All went well until workers began noticing a faint aroma of milk in the final product. After a few months of tinkering, they finally managed to remove the odor. But that sort of problem is par for the course in the new recycling game...
...remembers only the imposing structure turning, as it were, before the eye, displaying its stresses and bulges -- straining for embodiment and yet defeating it with its own supercharged mannerism. More than any other artist of his time, Reni adumbrated the abstractness of the neoclassical figure, along with its faint overtones of camp...