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...most disturbing, and certainly most paradoxical, about both these flagrantly antidemocratic actions was that they had widespread local support. Just before he was hauled off to jail, Chavez, resplendent in his uniform, was allowed to make a televised valedictory. He was a great hit, not just in the fetid barrios around Caracas but in many middle-class households as well. Likewise, when Fujimori threw in his lot with his own restless colonels and put many legislators under house arrest, his popularity initially skyrocketed...
...battles with mosquitoes. The same clothes year after year, sometimes only underwear and socks. Filthy blindfolds that infected their eyes, but could not be removed when a guard was in the room. Steel chains that were never unlocked, save for the 10-minute daily visit to the "toilet," a fetid hole in the ground. Months without baths. Then bathing privileges that forced filthy men to share not only the same water but the same towel, sometimes unlaundered for months at a time. Meals that never varied: bread, cheese and tea for breakfast and dinner; boiled rice and vegetable-something...
Before MacArthur finally received the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, though, would come three grinding years of "island hopping," the slow and painful campaign across the South Pacific from the fetid jungles of New Guinea to the barricaded caves of Okinawa. The first of these battles, and one of the worst, occurred at the southern tip of the Solomon Islands, where the U.S. Marines made their first landing of the war early in the morning of Aug. 7, 1942. There was no opposition. The Japanese, who would fight more than six months to hold that desolate island, called it Gadarukanaru...
...DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL. Eric Bogosian is the Swinburne of sleaze. The master monologuist finds fetid poetry in the butt ends of urban American lives: street people, soul-dead tough guys, ex-dopester rock stars. They crowd the stage in this one-man show, a 1990 off-Broadway hit artfully filmed by director John McNaughton...
...Ayatullah Khomeini's political heir still has a jaundiced view of the Great Satan. "Our real desire, from the beginning, was to humiliate the United States throughout the world," writes Rafsanjani. Moreover, Westerners "are members of the school of pleasure-seeking, lasciviousness, enjoyment and entertainment . . . ((caught in)) the fetid, slimy bed of lust and pleasure." Showing some worldliness himself, Rafsanjani is offering to provide rare family snapshots and even "unpublished" photographs of the American hostages held for 444 days in Iran to anyone who snaps up his book...