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Double Standard. Cameron vividly captures much of the flavor of that tense, troubled country with its brooding sense of danger and its "cult of camouflage." North Viet Nam, he says, is "a land where everyone considers it necessary to live in disguise, to inhabit his own country pretending he is not there, but invisible." When he is not filing background color, though, Cameron is less a reporter than a conduit for North Vietnamese propaganda. He all but equates Hanoi, which has not been touched by bombs, with wartime London, which was hit heavily. He quotes officials, such as North Viet...
...glass menagerie clusters on a small table, glittering and dancing in the beams of light. Its tiny creature prance without motion, craning their transparent necks and stamping their transparent feet. They inhabit a magic world in miniature...
Williams wrote a play about people who inhabit the past and the present, and those who inhabit no time at all. There is Amanda Wingfield, a faded Mississippi belle stranded in the slums of St. Louis who is trying desperately to recapture the dead world of the Delta; Jim O'Connor, the gentleman caller, an engaging boor who represents the present Amanda is avoiding; Tom, Amanda's son, torn between love for his mother and sister and the desire to escape into the living world around him; and Laura, Amanda's daughter, a shy and delicately beautiful cripple...
...finding himself imprisoned in the moribund Eden that the Finzi-Continis have chosen to inhabit, he breaks off with Micol, begins to live a life on his own. A few years later, he witnesses the final destruction of the family: Alberto succumbs to a malignant disease; Micol and her parents are deported to Germany, presumably to die in the Nazis' gas chambers...
...former inhabit the relatively wealthy Selma suburb where Mayor Joseph Smitherson lives. His neighbors lined the curbs last Friday as 300 silent demonstrators were arrested for picketing Smitherson's home. The onlookers were well-dressed. They didn't taunt the demonstrators and, knowing I was a reporter, tried to reason with...