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...fiery glow of exploding shells and rockets flared across the night sky, illuminating the ghostly city. From high ground behind the Lebanese capital, tanks and artillery pounded away at nearby strongholds of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The surrounding Israeli army had all but cut off food, water and incoming traffic to West Beirut. The 500,000 residents of that encircled area of the city could do nothing but anxiously hope for some resolution to the impasse...
...night the moon makes a perfect crescent, cradling a star between its points like an Arab flag. At 2 a.m. Israeli jets fly low over the hotel, creating astonishing booms. The ears ring, stunned. In the black sky two sulfurous flares glow sickly yellow, blaze momentarily, then disappear before an orange spray of machine-gun bullets...
...lines snaking around 1,323 movie theaters this summer are long and eager; faces of every hue and age glow with anticipation. Outside Los Angeles' Cinerama Dome theater, a young woman on crutches stands patiently for 90 minutes, waiting to buy a ticket. Outside a theater in Washington, D.C., an elegant couple keeps cool by sipping tangerine daiquiris. Inside every theater there is applause as two names that certify movie magic appear on the screen: Steven Spielberg and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. One Boston man in his 20s exults: "This is our generation's Wizard...
DIED. Harry Mills, 68, one of the original Mills Brothers, singer of most of the scat parts and baritone solos for the barbershop-swing group, whose mellow and enduringly contemporary sound (Paper Doll, Lazy River, Glow Worm) withstood shifts in musical fashions and gave Mills a singing career that spanned 57 years; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...year, but his dominant landscape radiated warmth and possibilities. It was filled with earnest people blinking in the glare of sudden and temporary freedom, with winter a chilly reflex of conscience. Seaside houses stimulated the senses: "Lying in bed, you draw on your cigarette and the red glow lights an arm, a breast, and a thigh around which the world seems to revolve. These images are like the embers of our best feelings, and standing on the beach, for that first hour, it seems as if we could build them into a fire." Such summer retreats were also haunted...