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...from the U.S. embassy in 1975, leaving loyal Vietnamese servants behind, and a panoply of Saigon clubs and Bangkok hooker bars, all nighties and neon. But the themes could not be bigger: geopolitical rescue missions that turn into fiascos, whole peoples' opportunities being thwarted through accidents of birth, the sheer randomness of how riches are distributed on this planet...
Turkish authorities say they have been overwhelmed by the sheer mass of refugees. The total number of northern Kurds and southern Shi'ites fleeing toward Iran or Turkey is estimated at almost 2 million. Many, like the 200,000 or so on the mountaintops around Turkish Hakkari, can be reached only by dirt roads often made impassable by mud. "We can send aid only on mules," says a Turkish official...
Essentially untrained as a painter, he fell in with the German Expressionists in 1910-12 by sheer brightness of character. He knew August Macke, whose ideas about pantheistic nature were to reverberate in Ernst's work right up to its end. Macke was killed in the trenches. Ernst survived the war and emerged from its troglodytic lunacy with a deep hatred of Kaiser and country...
...capella masses swallowed these appetizers and were begging for more when Richard Glenn served the main course with his sprightly rendition of "I'm Into Something Good." The comedy, tragedy and sheer fun of Glenn's performance left nary a dry eye in the house. In the next song, "Just the Two of Us," Myles McDonnell's solid male lead and Dawn Yip's oozing, soulful female lead turned a potentially boring song into a pleasurable experience. And the Veritones' signature song--"Ride My Harley," a spiritual gone astray--was spunky and assumed an absurd dimension with Blasko Ristic...
...traveler in China lost his passport, causing the tour group annoying delays. His invention, sold in four-packs for about $72, is meant to be attached to a wallet or passport, where it will noisily remind people not to leave such valuables behind. Most fabrics -- with the exception of sheer swimsuit materials -- should block enough light to stop the music...