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...Most of my influences were basically formed between the ages of eleven and eighteen when I read nonstop. I didn't go to school and I didn't have much of another life...
Reeves illuminates such policy crunches, the almost nonstop crises of Kennedy's truncated term, with masterly research and graceful writing. He largely succeeds in recapturing Kennedy's perspective, putting the world into the context of "what he knew and when he knew it and what he actually did" as President...
Concubine is an Eastern film whose subject, scope and nonstop bustle will be agreeable to Western moviegoers. Anyone can appreciate the splendor of the theatrical pageantry or the dagger eyes of Gong Li as a dragon lady whose only commandment is survival. The scenes in the Peking Opera School, where boys are caned for doing wrong or right, are no less horrifying than the later tableaux of public humiliation at the hands of the Maoists. But Chen clearly sympathizes with the schoolmasters. From such brutality, he suggests, artists are created. Concubine offers another moral: From the crushing cultural restrictions...
...tradition comes mainly from four tribes: the Navajo, Zuni, Hopi and Santo Domingo. The Navajos work in heavy stone, with exquisite silver carving; the Zuni in patterned filigree. The Hopi are nonstop fabulists. Their story belts form linear odysseys -- carved panel by panel, link by silver link...
...were 300,000 Lebanese civilians fleeing for their lives? After five days of nonstop bombardment, army Colonel Ali Fawaz, who administers a small ( hospital in Tibnin, a Lebanese village just 7 1/2 miles from the Israeli border, was bleary-eyed but still clearheaded. "The Syrians and Iranians," he explained, "are fighting a war against the Israelis here in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese pay . . . pay . . . pay." As he spoke, high-explosive shells shook the walls of the hospital. "We Arabs say the strong always devour the weak," he shouted above the din. "Lebanon is the weakest country in the Middle East...