Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--Just hours after a pregnant woman and her husband from the suburbs were shot in a robbery attempt that outraged the city, a young Black man was shot in the neck and pronounced dead on arrival at a city hospital...
...retrospect, the coup could have had three outcomes. If Bush had actively supported the coup, the plotters might have succeeded. But the improvement for the people of Panama would have been marginal at best; replace despot Manuel Noriega with would-be despot Moises Giroldi, a career military man with no demonstrated affection for democracy...
...Loan shot the man; Adams took the picture. The image went firing around the world and lodged in the conscience. Photography is the very dream of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which holds that the act of observing a physical event inevitably changes it. War is merciless, bloody, and by definition it occurs outside the orbit of due process. Loan's Viet Cong did not have a trial. He did have a photographer. The photographer's picture took on a life of its own and changed history...
...wore on, its impact wore off, so that only the most sensational images registered on the brain. Now that every kind of grief has been presented to the camera from every angle, pictures of misery remind us of other pictures of misery. Then, unexpectedly, comes a scene of one man blocking a line of tanks in Beijing, and once again a photograph sends shivers down the spine...
...although the attack killed many soldiers and some civilians -- including, Gaddafi claimed, his 18-month-old adopted daughter -- American officials were at pains to insist that they did not intend to kill Gaddafi himself. President Reagan said, "We weren't . . . dropping these tons of bombs hoping to blow that man up" -- although "I don't think any of us would have shed tears if that had happened." A senior White House official said, "We were showing him that we could get people close to him." Oh, well, that's O.K., then. As long as we didn't know Gaddafi...