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...inquiry much as Talleyrand might have defended himself before a revolutionary tribunal: you didn't know what it was like to live, he testifies, if you hadn't lived in Stavisky's world. In the end, he tilts the film's sympathies towards Stavisky, towards a feeling that these hollow thirties--when every glass of champagne must have had something of the clink heard in Phnom Penh last week as Lon Nol toasted his new chief of staff--were a hothouse for a kind of life different from anything we can experience...
...capital. In front of the huge, unfinished Cambodiana Hotel, which now serves as a camp for 5,000 homeless refugees, emaciated children chanted, "O.K., bye-bye," perhaps the only English words they knew, as enemy bombs fell on the opposite bank of the Mekong River. Inside, a line of hollow-eyed mothers clutching half-dead infants waited patiently to enter the World Vision clinic. One baby's head hung limply to the side, eyes closed and mouth agape, its body swaddled in a green-and-white T shirt that bore the words HELLO, DARLING. Said Clinic Director Carl...
...collection by scrap merchants are left in the most remote corner of the Tucson center. Many pilots and other lovers of aircraft find this "drop area" distinctly unsettling and tend to avoid it. Everything salvageable from the planes stored here has been cut, pried or wrenched off. Only hollow shells are left. A couple of flying boxcars sprawled wheelless on the ground look like great, ungainly fish, beached and gaffed. The last half-dozen B-47 bombers, or what is left of them, dip crazily, their wing tips on the ground, their engines, control panels and seats gone. Dozens...
HARVARD'S PLEDGE at the end of the '60s to bring minority representation here up to a level proportional to the population as a whole was nothing more than hollow words and empty rhetoric. Since 1971, the number of blacks admitted to the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has fallen steadily, and figures released last week suggest that this year will be worst of all. In a year when applications in general have remained substantially the same as last year, the number of black applicants to the College has plunged 25 per cent...
...time, he believed in the system, that it would work things out, because it always had. He didn't realize how greatly the police and guards hated and feared the inmates, nor how deeply the inmates mistrusted the state. Governor Rockefeller condemned their radical action, but his condemnation rang hollow. He had effected no prison reform since he came to office in 1959, and not until Attica did the state promise change. Of the 28 reforms the state agreed to in the process of bargaining at Attica only three--the creation of an ombudsman's office, a grievance procedure...