Word: gauntness
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...agony never seems to really end. No matter when Neveu returns?1981, 1985, 1990?the visages he captures so expertly are still gaunt. The hunger. The poverty. The children with distended bellies and thin arms. And there are guns and soldiers everywhere. The Vietnamese broke Pol Pot's control of the central state apparatus in 1979 and ended the general terror, but he and his troops simply melted back into the jungle to continue fighting. Countless other guerrilla forces were spawned. Neveu seems to have run with them all. He catches wounded soldiers on film as they are being dragged...
...when the Edhi ambulance picked him up. From there, he was taken to the civil hospital in Quetta, where he still awaits an operation to remove the bullets. Abdul Halim, was beside him, gently massaging his brother's hand. Hekmatullah was bearded (of course), and he had a gaunt, ascetic pallor; it was like a deathbed scene by El Greco. "Why has this happened to my brother?" cried Abdul Halim in disbelief. Under the circumstances, I couldn't bring myself to explain about "collateral damage...
...colors that Hamad Alokzai noticed. The gaunt Afghan, with a beard like matted wool and gaudy silver rings on his fingers, had returned to Afghanistan from exile in Quetta, Pakistan, to check on his former comrades. On Thursday night he sat with his old Taliban commander under blankets in a pickup truck, safely tucked away in the hills outside Kandahar. "The bombs make a sound, then you see green lights falling through the sky," the commander told Alokzai. "The missiles have flashing yellow lights." That night, Alokzai counted 30 missiles striking targets around the city: "It was like Kandahar...
...sleek eight-cylinder Packard sedan, Tom Joad's diamond Rolex flashing in the Dust Bowl air. The poor do not make good ads..... Or do they? Might be edgy possibilities here, a kind of Walker Evans chic - a good spread in Vanity Fair, page after page of gaunt black-and-white shots, weathered Depression faces, a certain erotic poverty...
Barring some unforeseen disaster, Lance Armstrong will win his third Tour de France Sunday. The 29-year-old Texan will once again be photographed riding down the Champs Elysees, fingers pointed skyward, something between relief and joy playing across his gaunt features. As of Friday, Armstrong held a virtually insurmountable 5-minute lead over his closest rival...