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...Every day is a day of joy aboard the M.S. Prinsendam. Six passenger decks are devoted to the luxurious vacation life you expect, with an ambience of intimacy and charm." So begins a lavish illustrated brochure touting the pleasures of cruising to Alaska and the Orient aboard the Holland America Line's gleaming 426-ft. Prinsendam. Notes the pamphlet: "Your Dutch officers are dedicated to making every moment memorable...
...Before government officials arrived, for example, many of the garimpeiros had been throwing away "black gold," an impure mixture that can be refined to yield ordinary gold and palladium, a valuable metal in its own right, as well as manganese. Says a government mining engineer: "Our job is to orient the garimpeiros. They're individualists. Many were small farmers. They know this is the chance of a lifetime." On yet another level, official price controls wiped out the barracao, with the government trucking in 40 tons of food and other supplies a week. Says one garimpeiro, "This...
...Before government officials arrived, for example, many of the garimpeiros had been throwing away "black gold," an impure mixture that can be refined to yield ordinary gold and palladium, a valuable metal in its own right, as well as manganese. Says a government mining engineer: "Our job is to orient the garimpeiros. They're individualists. Many were small farmers. They know this is the chance of a lifetime." On yet another level, official price controls wiped out the barracão, with the government trucking in 40 tons of food and other supplies a week. Says one garimpeiro, "This...
...aware, I have no personality of my own whatsoever," Sellers once said. For a guy with no personality, he had a lot of chutzpah. Somewhere within himself, he found a way to play Dr. Strange love and Henry Orient and Inspector Clouseau. And finally, Chauncey Gardiner, the TV-weaned hero of Being There...
Slowly she disabuses herself of this notion. The final link in her chain of reasoning is her youngest brother. Facing the draft, he enlists in the Navy, prepared to desert the moment he is required to inflict pain or death. He goes to Viet Nam and sees the Orient for the first time, reversing the trip made by so many of his forebears. And he comes home, not to China but to California, where, as an uncle had once shouted, "we belong." At the very end, Kingston resolves to "watch the young men who listen...