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Teddy White is interested in excitement. He has been ever since China. But he indulges this interest to excess. He falls too easily for the big names--Chou En Lai, Stillwell, MacArthur, Mao, Eisenhower and Kennedy. To White, these people are all bigger and better than life. He loses his perspective which causes the reader to lose respect for White's credibility...
...making a beeline for each other; Lechat's daughter (Christine Laurent) marries his partner (Philippe Leotard) right after their first blind date. Though Lelouch is too discreet to show any of these couples in bed, he composes his own eroticism out of Normandy sunlight, knowing glances and Francis Lai's typically catchy musical score...
...many people died at My Lai...
Pianist Wanyong Lai plays Debussy's Children's Corner and Bach's Well Tempered Clavier at Dunster House Library at 5:30 miscellaneous...
...town. Perhaps future historians will chart the beginning of the fall of the American Imperium as that frenzied year of Tet and Chicago, 1968. Or maybe they will see it as our coming of age--in the highlands and paddies of Indochina the distinctions of war blurred into My Lai Four and the question became not just who was crazy and who was sane, but who was there and who was not. Westmoreland and LBJ were not there--they dreamed of conquering Gaul. Tim O'Brien, the ex-infantryman and former Washington Post reporter who is the author of this...