Word: quicksands
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...does. If Lange initially seems in danger of sinking in Southern quicksand, she soon gains her footing and brings one of Williams' most memorable roles to stunning life. Prancing, preening, snarling from a half-crouch that is alternately seductive and menacing, she is constantly in motion. "Maggie the Cat is alive!" she shrieks, and one has no trouble believing her. If there were still any doubts after her performance in the movie Frances, Lange here serves notice that she is an actress to be reckoned with...
...mile trip from the capital to the outpost of Kalait in northeastern Chad can take days, even weeks, over one of the worst roads in Africa. It varies from soft, treacherous quicksand and dunes to flinty, sunbaked plains to immense boulders. On occasion it is mined by rebel infiltrators, and sometimes it is patroled by bandits of uncertain political persuasion...
...officials argue that by stationing Marines in Lebanon, the U.S. played into Syrian hands, since Washington, in effect, put itself at the mercy of forces largely controlled by Assad. If the U.S. could leave the Lebanese quicksand tomorrow without losing face, and without the risk of causing further chaos by doing so, some Administration officials undoubtedly would grab the opportunity...
...battle. But then war tended to fade into jungles and a thousand ambiguities of costume and faction and political subtlety. Viet Nam was America's painful education in this new form. Overarmed and under informed, the Americans came onto the battlefield and found that it was all quicksand and fog. Viet Nam was morally impenetrable as well. Americans could not tell enemies from friends. The war became a terrible waste of idealism. An older generation of men who had had their war at Normandy and Iwo Jima would grow nostalgic for the moral simplicities they had known. After...
...another sort of swashbuckler. He landed his Bell Jetranger III helicopter in Fort Worth not long ago, after flying around the world in three stages. Smith is notorious for his publicity stunts, but his troubles were real enough. He was shot at by fishermen off Greenland, he landed in quicksand in Burma, and over the northern Pacific bad weather nearly forced him to miss a refueling ship. Smith's understated conclusion: "I was extremely lucky to get back. I would never try it again...