Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horrors of that camp nearly defy description," says Neff. "Kennerly and I helped report the Viet Nam War, but we'd never seen anything remotely like this." In the first days only 14 reporters and photographers reached Jonestown, three from TIME. The third was Matthew Naythons, a practicing doctor from San Francisco who doubles as a news photographer. Naythons had been scheduled to accompany Congressman Ryan's party but had been held back by a visa problem...
...pavilion. As a lively band beat out a variety of tunes, from rock to disco to jazz, the colonists burst into song, including a rousing chorus of America the Beautiful. Even the skeptical Ryan was impressed. He rose to tell his assembled hosts: "From what I've seen, there are a lot of people here who think this is the best thing that has happened in their whole lives." The audience applauded loudly. Jones stood up and led the clapping...
...nurses started taking the babies from the mothers. Jones kept saying, 'Hurry, hurry!' But the people were not responding. The guards then moved in and started pulling people, trying to get them to take the potion." Clayton had seen enough. "It was dark by now. I went around to each of the guards, embraced them and told them, 'I'll see you later.' I skipped out into the bushes. All the time I kept saying to myself, 'I can't believe this. Jim Jones...
...their worst, the cults acquire a psychosis of millennialism. This chiliasm, playing at the drama of the last days, nourishes when life is no longer seen as ascendant. But no matter how democratically advertised, visions of the New Jerusalem, Utopia or an Edenic Jonestown are bathed in a totalitarian light. And they are shadowed by glimpses of enemies: Antichrist, Gog and Magog; paranoia is often a cult's principal instrument of discipline. Even in 1978, one catches whiffs of an old dementia and witchfire...
...trim and fit. Says Arnold: "Ann-Margret can run six miles without breathing hard." Only good form, of course, to hold the third bankable name in the cast up for praise, too. "Kirk Douglas is very muscular and lean and in great shape," judges Schwarzenegger. "I've never seen him step onto a horse, he jumps." Oh, and the horse! It's actually six look-alike horses who do different stunts, rolling over, sitting down and even kissing Kirk -all in fine fettle...