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...outward form, David Rabe's trilogy of military plays, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones, and now Streamers, appears to be about the brutalizing effect of army life and the scourge of Viet Nam on the U.S. conscience. In inner content, they are more like detonations of the individual psyche -a simple soul goes berserk...
...eight "laminar air flow rooms" set up by the NCI for infection-prone patients -is kept free of potentially harmful viruses and bacteria by a system that forces clean air into the room through filters and out through an open doorway; germs cannot make their way past the outward-flowing air. Only people dressed in specially designed sterile outfits are allowed into the room...
With Kissinger running foreign relations, it was Haig who tried to hold domestic policies together whenever proposals requiring decisions came up from the various departments. By then Nixon was totally preoccupied with Watergate. Haig is portrayed as performing heroically, maintaining brutal hours and an outward front of confidence about Nixon's surviving in office. Privately, he startled one White House aide by confiding: "He's as guilty as hell." Haig's personal opinion of Nixon was that he was "an inherently weak man who lacked guts." But to Haig, the good of the nation required that...
...fact, by most outward measure, Vidal's present life is close to the last chapter in an Alger novel-updated by Gore Vidal. He spends eight or nine months each year at La Rondinaia...
...rumble of buckling earth and masonry. Grabbing his terrified and screaming child, he stumbled over the shifting floor of his adobe house to the door. A pressure beyond his frantic strength held it shut. While he was still grappling with the door, the front wall of his home crashed outward into the street, leaving Castro and his son standing exposed but unharmed. They had just survived one of the century's most destructive natural disasters...