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...army's journey south revealed a landscape of ruin. The tobacco-farm country around Tibnine, a hill town about 10 miles from the Israeli border, is like a slide show of destruction--scorched earth, leveled homes, torched gas stations--shot in a gray scale of cement dust and summer haze. While refugees have flooded back into other areas of Lebanon, only the brave or desperate have returned to these parts, which are still strewed with unexploded bombs, many of them from antipersonnel cluster munitions. "There are thousands of these out there," says a Lebanese military intelligence officer in Tibnine...
...sharp crack of outgoing artillery rounds from Israeli positions just across the border is accompanied by the door-slamming sound of exploding shells nearby. Dirty clouds of smoke and dust blossom on the rocky hillsides. The flames and smoke of brush fires sparked by shelling add to the noonday haze and turn vast expanses of countryside into sterile charred deserts. Jets swoop overhead, dropping massive bombs that leave huge towering columns of smoke, the blast carried for miles on the hot breeze...
...many without arms and legs-who might otherwise have died ... BUT THE REAL DEVILS OF THE WAR WORK IN THE MIND. Something like a quarter of those who served may still be suffering from substantial psychological problems. They get flashbacks, nightmares, depression, startle reactions, and that wild red haze of rage in the brain when self-control goes and adrenaline shakes the whole frame, and some terrific violence struggles to cut loose. That is Vietnam combat doing its wild repertory in the theater of a vet's nerves." Read more at timearchive.com...
...prohibitionist vigilantes argue that non-smokers need to be protected from noxious fumes. Restaurant patrons, they cry, have a “right” to eat in a smoke-free environment, and bar workers should never be “forced” to work in a smoky haze. And these hypocrite liberal lecteurs know the solution: a totalitarian-minded ban on smoking in public places...
...full arc of the choreography.In the heavily promoted tribute to Bob Fosse entitled “Inspiration: Fosse,” the most inspiring aspects of the piece had nothing to do with the choreography, staging or performance. It was the lighting (decorative and moving spotlights through a smoky haze) that perfectly embodied the traditional Fosse atmosphere. The execution and choreography, however, were both far too influenced by the modernistic creativity flowing through the rest of the show. The dance itself had the wrong emotional texture, and the movements were too flowy and extended to lay claim to the crisp...