Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months in Viet Nam, Jaramillo has known fear, boredom and disillusionment. His biggest worry: "Getting killed. I just couldn't see myself getting killed. Some nights I don't worry, 'cause you know nothing is going to happen. Some nights I don't even feel safe in the bunker. I've seen guys at night just crying. Let the guy cry. It's helping him. I cried. Two good buddies of mine got hit, but it's over with and you can't keep thinking about it." He does think about...
...step and counts the days: "It's a long year. Here a year seems like five years. I never gave a - about this or that until I came over here. I just read the sports pages before. Now I read and try to form my opinions. I feel I'm more mature since coming over here. I got more responsibility-'cause it's my own ass I've gotta protect." If he succeeds at that task, his happiness at getting out alive will probably conquer whatever bitterness that Viet Nam may have left. "When...
...paintings are characteristic of the mire men and animals find themselves in." She quotes Flannery O'Connor to the effect that "what people consider grotesque is really reality, and what they think is reality is grotesque." Adds Mrs. Beerman: "I'm in full agreement. I really feel that I'm depicting reality. People ask me if I have bad dreams. No. These paintings that I do are my bad dreams...
...holes in his shoes simply because "it makes the feet more interesting." The folds of his trousers swirl into an extra ear. "Why not have an extra ear in one's trousers, to hear better and different things?" Brauer's point is that any man may feel green from time to time. When he does, an extra ear would be a help-but probably not enough...
...full whisky bottles and setups to the tables, and customers are expected to tot up their own bar bills. "If you tell us you only had one double bourbon we'll believe you," reads an ad for Cavanagh's, and Ellman says: "We want the customer to feel that he's putting one over on us, that he's got the edge...