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Knightley's lightly armed narrative charges from the Crimean War, where the modern techniques of reporting and censorship began, to Viet Nam, where television brought packaged blood and flame into the home and censorship was abandoned in favor of a massive public relations campaign to sell the war. Famous locations and faces flash by in Knightley's 120-year extravaganza, but some things never change. In the correspondents' rush to be first with the news, the truth is usually distorted and sometimes sacrificed. Sooner or later, a government official gets around to asking a zealous reporter, "Whose...
...aboard his luxury yacht. She is Pia Giancaro, 30, a still-aspiring actress whose credits include such best forgotten films as The Red Woman Kills Seven Times and When Men Were Armed with Clubs. At least one observer, however, thinks Niarchos may not exactly be thinking of his new flame as his seventh bride. "I don't think you could call it anything serious," he says. "Niarchos might enjoy having such a beauty on his boat...
...history of India." Undeterred, the government then moved for approval of a constitutional amendment barring court review of the emergency decree. It passed the lower house by 342 votes to 1. The lone dissenter was Shamim A. Shamim, an independent Kashmiri, who declared: "I will keep up the flame...
Loud on the hissing anvils, stripped of flame...
...kind of tormented agnosticism, as in this poem about the crucifixion of Christ: An open mind disturbs the soul, And in disdain I turn my back Upon the sun that makes a show Of half the world, yet still deny The pain that lives within the past, The flame sinking upon the spike, Darkness that man must dread at last...