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...foreign tourists caught in the crossfire. Meanwhile, Mike tracks down his father’s onetime Holworthy Hall roommate, Christopher Dorr, a freelance journalist who has moved into a dense Bangkok shanty-town and who has become a modern-day version of Conrad’s sadistic Captain Kurtz...
...suggests so. Peopled with dyspeptic traders, white-suited missionaries and superstitious Samoan villagers, it blends mythical tales with sea stories, achieving a heightened realism that critiques the colonial experience. An earlier story completed before his travels is thought to have provided Joseph Conrad with his famous last words for Kurtz, "The horror! The horror!" and The Beach of Fales? is Stevenson's Heart of Darkness...
...martial him for unrelated alleged violations after he called Vietnam a "bad," unwinnable war on national television in 1971; of bladder cancer; in Tijuana, Mexico. His 25-year military career included tours of duty in seven war zones, and he was said to have been the inspiration for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. More recently, as a TV pundit, he scorned the "perfumed princes" of the Bush Administration, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who he claimed "misunderstood the whole [Iraq...
...future, the star could also provide clues as to the uncertain shape of the Milky Way, said Michael J. Kurtz, a co-author and astronomer and computer scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory...
...It’s actually pretty neat,” Kurtz said about this potential implication. “I didn’t know about it myself at first...