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...garbage men of combat. They package their own dead in black plastic bags for shipment back to the States. The men develop their own techniques for dealing with death. Cynical Deacon (Frank Adu) sells photos of the latest enemy kills as if they had been bagged on safari. Simple-minded Straw (Donald Warfield) tends the bodies with gentle piety. Others deal in raw humor or are narcotized by whores. The linchpin of the play is Micah (John Heard), a college boy for whom Nam, as they call it, is agonizing shorthand for the delayed initiation rite of manhood...
RHODESIA Richard's Safari of Salvation...
...Skirmishes between Rhodesian forces and black Nationalist guerrillas are now taking more than 300 black and white lives each month, and all-out racial war is a real danger if negotiations fail. Thus Richard's shuttle has been dubbed by some officials and journalists in southern Africa a safari of salvation...
...house in Plains, wearing a long, yellow, velour sweater and white sneakers, Carter had his feet crossed on top of his desk. Beside him, balancing thick black notebooks full of Cabinet profiles on his lap, was his young aide, Hamilton Jordan, in a sports shirt and safari jacket, looking just as casual as his boss. Jordan slid his red canvas chair next to Carter and handed over one of the books, reading along with him so closely that his head was almost touching Carter's shoulder. For two hours, looking a little like a father and son discussing homework...
...letters, checked receipts, and ran a household that numbered four gardeners, a cook, a butler, a maid, a chauffeur (not to mention the dogs and cats). On the Pilar, Hemingway's beloved 38-ft. yacht, she was his fishing buddy. Everywhere-in the bullfight arenas of Spain, on safari in Africa, at Toots Shor's celebrity saloon in Manhattan-she was audience to an endless cycle of war stories and constant repetitions of his philosophies and jokes, including such trying catch phrases as "truly" (spoken in a "solemn voice") and "how do you like it now, gentlemen...