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...once, we did the ambushing. We nailed them. A hail of fire dropped several V.C., and the rest fled. We approached gingerly. One man lay motionless on the ground, the first Viet Cong that I could definitely confirm we had killed in action. He lay on his back, gazing up at us with sightless eyes. The man was slightly built, had coarse, nut-brown features and wore the flimsy black short-legged outfit we called pajamas. My gaze fixed on his feet. He was wearing sandals cut from an old tire, a strip of the sidewall serving as the thong...
...film is more than a murder mystery and more than a study in character conflict. At its best, it is an intense and complex portrait of an urban landscape on which the movies' gaze has not often fallen. Yes, this housing project is home to a feckless delinquent population. But it is also home to middle-class black families struggling to preserve their values and save their children from drugs, crime and despair...
...native country," says her mother). And in the mornings she wakes up in her own bed--a crib the size of the one she shared with two other babies in that Chinese orphanage. "For the first few weeks after we brought her home, Rebecca would open her eyes, gaze at me and simply beam, surprised and delighted, looking as if she wanted to say, 'Oh, you're still there,'" Smolowe says. "There are people who say to us, 'Rebecca's such a lucky little girl.' Those people don't understand. Joe and I are the lucky ones...
...word swept through court last Friday afternoon that the jury was about to come back with its sentence in the Susan Smith case, rain began to fall. And as Smith stood before the judge to learn she had been spared the death penalty, thunder rumbled. Courtroom spectators moved their gaze from defendant to windows and back again. Then, as swiftly as it had begun, the storm was over. A few minutes later, when Smith was led back to prison, the sun burst forth...
...literary device; it's how I live." Growing up in Santiago, she remembers the great aunt "who at the end of her life began to sprout the wings of a saint," and the clairvoyant grandmother who, Allende insists, could move a sugar bowl across the table with her mere gaze. And she tells of how, at eight, she was molested by a fisherman and found him dead the next morning...