Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every day for a decade, images of the faraway country came flooding into the U.S. on tape and film and photographic paper, pictures of Viet Nam by the hundred gross. Bit by visual bit, Americans accrued a vivid (if distorted) portrait of the country where their sons and husbands were dying, a terrifying multimedia montage of nervous teenage heroes behind sandbags, of Saigon's beleaguered charm, of a green, green countryside with helicopters hovering everywhere...
...invincible ironies. Although Paley continues to skirt the political confrontations she elicits in life, her writing ministers to the walking wounded from the '60s. In "Friends," three women gather at the bedside of a dying companion. All have yet another cause for sorrow: a daughter found dead in a faraway rooming house. A boy vanished into California: "a son, a boy of fifteen, who disappears before your very eyes into a darkness or a light behind his own, from which neither hugging nor hitting can bring...
...from store windows nor have the ties been retired to an appropriate bottom drawer because Sarajevo does not want to get over the Games. Reminiscence is everywhere. Hajrudin Cengic, president of the town assembly's executive council and city coordinator for the Olympics, loses his managerial demeanor to a faraway look: "There is not a single day that passes that I do not remember the Olympics. The city looked really gorgeous to me, with people from the whole world here. Only now when I think back do I realize how beautiful it really was. We are trying to keep that...
Though Svetlana was manifestly troubled, there was little to indicate that she might be tempted to return to the Soviet Union. Her loathing for the regime was undiminished. In 1984, she published in India a sharply anti-Soviet volume of memoirs titled The Faraway Music. "Svetlana's hatred for Soviet Russia was in her bones," says a Russian emigre who knew her well. "If she heard Russian spoken by someone who had been brought up in the U.S.S.R., she would become enraged." Svetlana said on the BBC, "Only when I came to America and heard all the emigres, then...
...hear critics tell it, supply-side economics, and thus Reaganomics, originated in a faraway jungle where voodoo is in vogue. Supply-side theory, which emphasizes the importance of tax cuts in stimulating economic growth, actually sprang forth from leading universities like Columbia, and has been refined at several respected think tanks. One of these is the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Two of the institute's scholars, Charles Murray and George Gilder, have written new books that are already stirring as much comment and controversy as the original supply-side ideas...