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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officers banged on the third-floor door and its mysterious occupant burst out on the landing. None of us, seasoned officers included, was prepared for the sight of a pale, fish-colored man in camouflaged bikini underwear, crying. "Has there been a shooting...
...talking about deliberate cruelty, even in its more subtle forms. What I am talking about, of course, is excess. I get the impression that some people have spent so much time in the trenches of verbal warfare that they have lost sight of the enemy...
...stopped, so did this vast torrent of images to the West. Both sides seemed complicit in the blackout: the Vietnamese victors were not especially eager for skeptical foreigners to photograph their land, and the foreigners were not all that interested anyway--since when has peace been newsworthy? Out of sight was not quite out of mind, but close. Now, however, thanks to an anniversary marking the end of a wrenching war, the pictures have begun to flow again, giving Americans another look at a country they knew so well--and knew hardly...
...Persse find Angelica, thereby bringing fertile rain to the critical wasteland? Not before Lodge pulls out all the old tricks: hidden births and revealing birthmarks, magical instances of love at first sight and many, many journeys. The author's wry and graceful style keeps a complicated plot briskly in motion and surprisingly fresh. Along the way, he takes some gentle but funny swipes at reigning scholarly ideologies and provides enough surface diversions to beguile readers who have never heard of Sir Thomas Malory or the Modern Language Association. The author even helps neophytes along with a definition given...
Photographer David Burnett has especially vivid memories of the Easter offensive of 1972. "Most unnerving," he recalls, "was the sight, through the borrowed binoculars of an American adviser, of a wave of North Vietnamese tanks coming toward us." Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott chronicled the dwindling American presence in Viet Nam in 1973-74. "It was possible, in those fading days of the war," he says, "to eat breakfast with my family, drive out of Saigon for a morning's action, then return for a gossipy lunch." William McWhirter, now bureau chief in Bonn, reported from Viet...