Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HEADS OF STATE are long gone from the Geneva conference on "the refugee problem" but Richard--his given American name--is still sitting at the water's edge at the government dockyards down on Canton Road. Richard is Vietnamese, in his thirties and middle-class in his former life. But here he is dressed in a pair of white polyester cotton pajama bottoms. Sores mark his body from the waist up, but that, of course, is only as far as you can see. Richard once was an Air Traffic Controller for the American army. Then he was a farmer...
...three periodicals, winning a token out-of-court settlement and a public apology. Last week Gary insisted that the child had been his and that the false reports had made "Jean become psychotic. Every year on the anniversary of this stillbirth she has tried to take her own life." He blamed the incident for her psychiatric treatment and, ultimately, her death...
James Chretien of Lawrence, Mass., faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for the rape conviction and a minimum mandatory sentence of ten years in prison for the burglary charge...
...done some advance thanksgiving. I've given thanks for Paul Connors' return to action, after a long rest due to a groin pull. I've given thanks for Richie Horner's return to health, after rib injury. We need them both, and their recovery has made life a bit easier for Coach...
...Didion's latest collection of these images--20 essays written from 1968 to 1978. It is a brilliant albeit occasionally disjointed collage of impressions, written with her customary journalistic eye for detail and infused with emotion. The essays discuss the '60's, portray Didion and others, and sketch California life with and deadly accuracy...