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...rebound, Klein leaped over the line, ultimately changing his image from avant-garde to creepy . These ads enter the heart of adult darkness, where toying with the sexuality of young teens is thinkable. One of the most offensive segments poses a young man alone, his face in that numb, deadened look associated with films that can be bought only in an adult bookstore. A man off-camera says, "You got a real nice look. How old are you? Are you strong? You think you could rip that shirt off of you? That's a real nice body. You work...
...only with his name, his rank and his date of birth-obeying, as it happens, the instructions for pows in a manual published by the Michigan Militia. Even when confronted last week with photographs of the children carried from the crumpled Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building -- some bloody and numb with shock, others already dead -- McVeigh appeared unshaken. The accused bomber seems to have decided that he is a prisoner...
...chair in the lobby of Children's Hospital of Oklahoma. "I was at work in Norman," said Nguyen, 40, who works for a company that makes air conditioners in that town 18 miles south of Oklahoma City. When a friend told him about the explosion, Nguyen went numb. His five-year-old son Christopher was in the day-care center. "I didn't want to believe it," Nguyen said. "When I got to the messy streets of Oklahoma City, I had an empty feeling. I didn't know where my baby was or where my wife was." After two hours...
Living through a bomb attack--the sudden deafening noise; the flying glass and masonry; the bloody, broken bodies and screams of the injured--is traumatic enough to throw most adults into profound shock. But if the grownups who survived the Oklahoma City explosion are numb in its aftermath, what could be going through the minds of the blast's smallest and most vulnerable victims, the children...
...West Point cadet, fought in it as an infantry officer from 1967 to 1970, returned to Vietnam as a foreign-service officer in 1973, driven himself through 48 sleepless hours helping run the evacuation from the embassy. As his helicopter headed for the U.S. fleet, he says, "I was numb with exhaustion. Physically, I was beyond sensation. But I felt the tremendous weight of all that pressure lift off me. I realized my war, our war, was finally over...