Word: passport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoping to avert a mass exodus, the government has banned travel abroad, and passports are issued only for "special cases." To qualify for that category, a bribe of $2,000 or more is needed. Even so, the passport office is crammed with applicants. When a rumor swept the city that Australia was granting unlimited visas to South Vietnamese, a massive crowd snarled traffic in front of the Australian embassy. After the 1954 truce, as many as 50,000 Vietnamese settled in France, which many Vietnamese regard as a cultural mother country. Last week the French embassy was again besieged...
...prevent any quick dismissal of them. It is as if that "transparent" peephole is also completely opaque-full of a mysters that could not be ciphered. He has turned his snapshots into stone. His portrait of a "Haitian Woman," for example, is so casual that it could be a passport photograph and yet so full of a unity of expression that it is ultimately as impenetrable as it is gripping...
...clown when the spirit of darkness has moved me and colliding with good times at every turn." It is a deceptive portrait of The New Yorker; like a shaving mirror, it gives only part of the picture. Once upon a magazine, The New Yorker gave its readers a passport to a world in which everyone was witty and/or attractive, in which sophistication and style-above all, style-mattered more than life itself. In one sense it was a constricted world; the old New Yorker never boasted more than 330,000 subscribers. In another sense, that world seemed to have...
...problems by adopting a new identity were laid well before his trip to Miami last November. First he telephoned hospitals looking for a dead person about his own age with no relatives; finding one Joseph Arthur Markham, Stonehouse obtained the latter's birth certificate and got a passport. Then, after his vanishing act in Miami, he flew to Melbourne, arriving on Nov. 27. The next day he left for Denmark via Singapore in order, he claims, to gauge the reaction to his disappearance in Europe and Britain. On Dec. 10, he returned to Australia, booking into...
CANDIDE. Harold Prince's agile production pays Voltaire the tribute of unblemished veracity, and Leonard Bernstein's score could well be his passport to musical comedy's Valhalla...