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...largest city in South Viet Nam, and seven other major towns. Almost 24 hours later, they mounted a wave of near simultaneous attacks throughout South Viet Nam. They hit 36 of the country's 44 provincial capitals. They overran all but a corner of the historic former capital at Hue. Communists penetrated the heart of Saigon. They attacked the U.S. embassy, the presidential palace, the government radio station. All this was the work of an enemy that the Johnson Administration had reported to be "struggling to stave off military defeat...
Meese may be merely an innocent victim; he has testified before the McKay grand jury five times, answering all questions put to him. Nathan Lewin, one of Meese's personal lawyers, put the rosiest possible hue on McKay's announcement, saying he was "gratified" that the "most thorough investigation ever conducted of the personal finances of a public official . . . had been concluded at this time favorably to Attorney General Meese." Meese's patron, the President, once again asserted his confidence in his Attorney General...
...been a strange year for American movies. The most popular films of 1987 have a dark hue: violent policiers (Beverly Hills Cop II, The Untouchables, Lethal Weapon, Stakeout), corrosive Viet Nam memorials (Platoon and Full Metal Jacket), thrillers about sexual anxiety (Fatal Attraction). Steven Spielberg has flown to the dark side of E.T.: in Empire of the Sun a boy goes to war, and nearly goes mad. Even the comedies are cynical. The Secret of My Success got Michael J. Fox into bed with his uncle's wife to help advance his career. The Witches of Eastwick sent Satan...
Once numbers and letters lead lives of their own, colors cannot be far behind. And, indeed, they provide the supporting company of Peter Sis' Rainbow Rhino (Knopf; $11.95). Birds of primary hue -- red, yellow and blue -- lure their behemoth friend through poppy fields and banana groves searching for tranquillity. It will surprise no one that they find it back in their own back veld. Happily, the simpleminded text is augmented with whimsical drawings that show a mature eye and a youthful...
...first time in many months, Corazon Aquino wore her fighting color: yellow. It had been adopted as a trademark hue by the gigantic crowds that participated in her greatest triumph, the 1986 overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos. Now the Philippine President was taking up the color again as she launched a campaign against her gravest threat, a deep national malaise brought on by government ineptitude and the continuing threat of violent rebellion from left and right...