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Dahl has seen more than his share of that, as Going Solo makes vividly plain. There is the aforementioned shooting, the climax of a bizarre episode in Tanganyika, where the author had gone in 1938 to work for the Shell Oil Co. When, a year later, World War II began in Europe, he was pressed into service by the British colonial government. His first job was to intern resident German civilians (Tanganyika was a German territory until the end of World War I). Dahl was supported by a handful of African militiamen, one of whom fired into...
...Derek C. Bok, president of Harvard University: plain M&M's, Charleston Chews, Hershey's Kisses, and Reeses Pieces...
Toward the end of True Stories there is a down-home talent show, replete with dueling auctioneers and a chorus line of just plain folks wrapped in Old Glory. What makes the scene -- pure performance art -- so arresting, though, is not its content but its location. In the X-ray light of the setting sun, each catwalk and scaffold of a makeshift stage stands silhouetted against the empty spaces of the plains. At this instant, the vision of another artist leaps to mind: the spaceship sequence from Einstein on the Beach...
...deep night out on a Texas plain flat as a pan bottom and just about burned through. A recent rain had slaked the land a little but brought forth legions of ants to infest the ground and pester a nearby film...
Stuck with the prospect of being part of the system, they are vainly attempting to disassociate themselves from it. They are just plain unhappy--about apartheid, about gym maintenance and about their inevitable job on Wall Street. What's important to notice is the apparent equivalence all these complaints share. In a cynical world, all evils are equally important because everything is equally irrelevant. It's all the same, and they want us to know...