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...Hill Fortress. Ambushes and close-range fire fights began almost at once. In rapid order, each of three Marine battalions found and named its own "Ambush Valley." Two of the battalions moved into a landing zone surrounded on three sides by mountains filled with enemy troops. The marines were to move up the two river valleys on either side of Hill 208, which intelligence reported was the 324th Division command post. It was also a fortress. No sooner had the leathernecks advanced within range of the hill than mortar fire rained down on them from all sides, while hidden machine...
...Cliché, All True. The view from Lauren Bacall Bogart Robards' high-ceilinged fourth-floor apartment in the Dakota, Manhattan's imposing fortress of old-world luxury, is the dense green foliage of Central Park. For Betty Bacall, as her friends call her, the view from the 41st year is just as vernal. Little Sam, her four-year-old son by Jason Robards, trots into the room with his nurse for some hugs and kisses before being taken for a row on the park pond. As he pauses at the door, his mother says, "Throw me a kiss...
...Idiot & Fortress...
...space ever more expensive, leading to "open plan" domestic architecture. The dining room became a corner of the living room, the family room opened off the kitchen, producing an illusion of greater space-and the fact of less privacy. As Mary McCarthy once observed, the bathroom is "the last fortress of the individual." Architect-Planner Serge Chermayeff asks, "Where is the provision for relaxation, concentration, contemplation, introspection, healthy sensuousness, all of which are conducive to intimacy, tenderness, wonder and delight...
...adversaries, who dismissed him with St.-Cyr-bred contempt as a sometime schoolmaster who had been awarded his general's stars by Communist bush politicians. But Giap's native army defeated his far-better-equipped foe by entrapping a French force of 12,000 in the mountain fortress of Dienbienphu and liquidating it, thus destroying the will of the politicians back in France to fight on. It made Giap nearly as much of a legend throughout Viet Nam as Uncle Ho, and if Giap was underestimated by the French, he is possibly overstudied today...