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...English word that both Arabs and Israelis instantly recognize is "Phantom." Meaning not ghost or specter, but the U.S.-built F-4 fighter-bomber, which has been the backbone of Israel's clearly superior air force since 1969. Considering the importance of the planes, Israelis should have been happier-and Arabs more furious -than they were after it was announced at year's end that the U.S. was prepared to resume shipment of F-4s to Israel...
Baker can be bitter: "The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heroes and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand." Baker can be elegiac, as when he raises the tragic ghost of Abe Lincoln, who says, "A man eventually likes to see the record on himself completed and know that everything is fixed and that his life is in order. I groan every time an archivist discovers another hitherto lost Brady portrait...
...funeral oration, is made out of empty air. The assassination and battle scenes are elaborately choreographed and acted out tableaux, replete with ritualistic mock blows and falls. Somehow, they work in a way that a literal reading of the script never could. The scene of Caesar's ghost, mocking the actions of the servant as he holds the sword on which Brutus falls is utterly chilling, as no prop-ridden version could be. The inarticulate, death-masked crowd at Caesar's funeral is likewise more effective than a more vocal group...
...there is another Richard, the man behind the monster mask of Tudor propaganda, a ghost wailing disconsolately for historic justice. Ever since 1768, when Horace Walpole published his Historic Doubts about Richard's alleged misdoings, revisionist historians have been trying to substantiate that ghost. In 1933, the Tudor version won points. When the skeletons of two young boys were found buried in the Tower, it was generally assumed that the bones were those of the little princes. Since then, passion and speculations have fueled at least half a dozen novels and several notable studies (including one that claimed...
...Zoutleeuw was a bustling commercial center, pitched at the intersection of trade routes between the Rhineland, the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant. Then alliances and frontiers shifted, and trade with them. By the end of the 16th century, Zoutleeuw was on the way to becoming a ghost town. Religious wars, famine, flood, fire and the plague almost finished it off, and it ended as an isolated country hamlet inhabited by about 2,600 people...