Word: illusioners
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Landing, yes; invasion, no?although the confusion and panic engendered by the illusion of invasion was precisely the aim of the U.S. planners. In one of the most daring and meticulously rehearsed operations of the long war, a fleet of U.S. helicopters was skimming into North Viet Nam at treetop...
The same is true of the cities on the Continent. Rebuilt or refurbished since World War II, they gleam and they function. Crime is a frequent outrage, but not an epidemic. Police are not loved, but they are not the target of guerrilla warfare. Drug abuse is growing, but it...
Painter Riley's development spans a ten-year arc from the aggressiveness of her early black-and-white images to the imperiled quiet of such new stripe paintings as Apprehend, 1970. First reactions to her work may run from puzzlement to nausea. But Riley has always denied she means...
"WE MUST make the state a reality," Louis tells the queen mother, then sets out to do just the opposite. He manufactures, instead, a state mythology, complete with forms and rituals usurped from Catholicism, infused, sui generis, with an illusion of order. "One rules minds," he tells Colbert, "by appearances...
(2 of 10) Rubenstein of Chicago's Roosevelt University: "It might be easy in a mechanical way to screw up the system?forcing the airlines to spend millions on armed guards, or to mess up the electrical or telephone systems. But what's wrong with the new terror is that...