Word: gunsight
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...took him this long to turn his haunted recollections into cinematic form. Except for the opening and closing shots of a field of sunflowers, the entire film takes place in an Israeli tank holding four very nervous soldiers. The only view to the streets outside is through the gunsight aimed at insurgents and civilians. Which ones to shoot at? Which ones to save? Working as both a horrors-of-war screed and a depiction of men under impossible stress, Lebanon is an unrelentingly claustrophobic nightmare. (Read: "Lebanon's Bernie Madoff: A Scandal Taints Hizballah...
...Lebanon war; his film is a survivor's haunted memory of that conflict. Except for the opening and closing shots of a field of sunflowers, the entire film takes place in an Israeli tank holding four very nervous soldiers. The only view to the streets outside is through the gunsight aimed at insurgents and civilians. Which ones to shoot at? Which ones to save? Imprisoning the audience with the soldiers may be a gimmick, but it's an inspired one: the viewer wants both to stay inside - shielding them from harm, or from doing harm - and to get the hell...
...novels like Gorky Park and Havana Bay, Smith has made a specialty of looking the wrong way through the gunsight, describing America's historical enemies with a vivid sense of place that complicates what we read in history books. Here Smith's 1940s Tokyo is so gloriously and tenderly realized, ringing with modan jazu (modern jazz) and the tinkling of geisha headdresses, that the reader understands the hold it has on Harry and the reason his loyalties are so tragically divided. His dilemma is the real mystery in December 6. After all, every story, like every war, has two sides...
...novels like Gorky Park and Havana Bay, Smith has made a specialty of looking the wrong way through the gunsight, describing America's historical enemies with a vivid sense of place that complicates what we read in history books. Here Smith's 1940s Tokyo is so gloriously and tenderly realized, ringing with modan jazu (modern jazz) and the tinkling of geisha headdresses, that the reader understands the hold it has on Harry and the reason his loyalties are so tragically divided. His dilemma is the real mystery in December 6. After all, every story, like every war, has two sides...
...Many of you objected to the riflescope view of Osama bin Laden in our cover illustration. "The picture of bin Laden encircled in a gunsight was deplorable and in extremely bad taste," complained a California woman. Two New Mexico readers agreed: "By placing him in the cross hairs, you send the message that in America it's O.K. to murder people." But others who wrote were simply tired of seeing the face of al-Qaeda's leader. "You continue to give this insect the notoriety he seeks as a terrorist," wrote a Coloradan. "Be creative and accentuate the positive...