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Military history is a gallimaufry of choices and chance, of opportunities taken, of roads forsaken...
...intelligent reader doubts that Frost had a dark side. Dread--of the "beast" waiting in night and cold, of Frost's forsaken conviction that "there is no oversight of human affairs"--gnaws at the edges of his work. Frost was not writing Hallmark cards...
...based on the novel about an Edenic commune. "Knowing that I like to travel and am something of a loner, a friend had recommended the book," says Ressner. He assures us that even in the jungles of Asia, DiCaprio fans abound, and the king of Hollywood has not forsaken his storied Epicureanism. "Leo holds to what the Thais call sanuk, which is more than just fun; it's a philosophy of fun," says Ressner, who has sojourned to Thailand twice before. As for his own sanuk, Ressner spent one lazy day aboard a rickety boat and another in a Buddhist...
...means of pressuring the Serb president to withdraw from Kosovo. "Krstic's arrest certainly turns up the heat on Milosevic," says Barnes. "The West can see how shaky Milosevic is, and Krstic's arrest will further destabilize him." Its pace may be glacial, but justice has not forsaken the Balkans...
However, flow is not so much forsaken, asexcusably sacrificed, for an admirable mastery ofthe vignette. City of Angles consists offragmented tableaux like those of a film, whereeach scene is stylistically and convincinglyexecuted. In fact, the achievement of directorPete Wilson '99 lies in his sensitive productionof the divisions in the script. What could wellhave been a technical nightmare-the disparaterealities of Stine and Stone-is slickly overcomewith juxtapositions, stop-action andinstant-reverse stage-play. At points, the setsand music are manipulated with skill to slip fromone world to another. It is the generalprofessionalism of the production that makes theever-present...