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...when the Beatles performed their five songs in two sets, the treble din engulfed the theater. You could hardly hear the music, but what did that matter? The Beatles' sheer presence was the point--their air of wholesome charm and cheeky wit, their instinctive connection with their audience. (It would be another couple of years before albums like Revolver and Sgt. Pepper showed that they were a musical phenomenon...
...Gulf War I. The best known TV scoop of the 1991 war was essentially radio: CNN's Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett and John Holliman describing the air attack on an audio line while the network broadcast their photographs over a map of Iraq. In sheer visual terms, last week's telecasts--with digital-age 3D animations, live interviews from the middle of an invasion and space-agey dispatches by videophone--were to their predecessor as Grand Theft Auto is to Pong...
...them." He learned about the guard when he was challenged for a password while returning to his own tent, late in the evening. One officer jokingly asked Col. Hodges how he got past the guard without a password and received the reply, "I tried to overwhelm him with the sheer force of my personality. When that failed, he eventually saw the logic of letting me into my tent so he could guard me properly...
...Kidman, the Australian who played English novelist Virginia Woolf in "The Hours": she proclaimed the crucial place of art in times of war. Chip by chip, nationality by nationality, you could hear the showbiz contingent of the Coalition of the Willing cracking asunder. I applaud the eloquence, poignance and sheer brass of these statements, especially since I agree with them. (Just for the sake of contrarianism, I would like to have heard someone, in that overwhelmingly liberal house, speak up for Dubya Dubya Three...
...Douch, his jailer at Anlong Veng, provides unique insight into the single-mindedness that is often the wellspring of genocide. Douch later presided over Tuol Sleng, the regime's most infamous prison, now a museum, in Phnom Penh. The horror of the tortures and murders committed there, the sheer accumulation of human gore, leads many contemporary visitors to conclude that it must have been the work of monsters. Yet in fact it was the work of the sons of the Cambodian kampung?which is precisely what makes it so shocking...