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Even more important than actual historical reproduction is Wajda's ability to capture the feel of the age the grime of street life and bread lines, the sense of urgency haunting politicos on all sides of the spectrum, and the pervasive paranoia of a society in lethal flux. Wajda brings forth all the weapons in this director's arsenal, from a droning soundtrack to claustrophobic camerawork, to brilliant contrast between dark night and the torches of the security police. He succeeds masterfully in conveying the dreadful anxiety of living in a totalitarian regime. For if the government of the Terror...
...Vietnamese launched a massive invasion of Cambodia, by then renamed "Democratic Kampuchea." Cambodians welcomed the conquest of their homeland by their historical neighboring enemy, just as they'd embraced the Khmer Rouge only a few years earlier, Lien credits the Vietnamese with rescuing her from certain death: the flux and confusion accompanying the incursion allowed her and her brothers to escape one night across the reedy, mountainous border into Thailand. Behind in the camp they left a cavernous pit, which Lien had learned was to be a mass grave for the workers...
...filling up with inaccessible accuracy, exhaustively researched big books on tiny topics. But facts do not speak for themselves; they are not even facts until someone formulates them. History is always slanted in one way or another. Merely writing a single sentence imposes an arbitrary order on the flux of occurrence. An older school of historians, too long out of session, made a virtue of this necessity. Knowing that they could not help reshaping reality, they did so with gusto and exuberant style...
...November--is wide open. One reason is that most of the wide array of candidates are unknown outside their own neighborhoods, the result in part of White's long political shadow over the city. Another explanation for the volatility of the election is that Boston is a city in flux...
American perceptions of the world situation have been in constant flux since the end of the Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era. It is not only the Russians who find it difficult to forecast what comes next, but also the Europeans. One hears too many conflicting noises [in Washington] and one feels that there is too little consideration for the European allies and their psychology, their necessities...