Word: snowsuit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer in the high Himalayas, but photographer Robert Nickelsberg borrowed a heavy-duty arctic snowsuit to cover this week's story on war on the Siachen Glacier between India and Pakistan. Just as well: he was stranded by a blizzard at a military camp 17,400 ft. up. Later, during an artillery exchange, Nickelsberg tried to dash to a better position only to discover that the thin air made it "nearly impossible to run." The rigors behind him, Nickelsberg sent back the first combat pictures seen in the West of this little-known conflict...
...pain and death that can attend all ages and circumstances. Grownups try to keep him from the ravages of knowledge. Tommy's mother tersely declares, "We bury the dead and then we get on with it ... Grief is something we carry inside us - here, get into your snowsuit - it's not polite to inflict it on others." But there is no escaping from natural law. Tommy learns to place the comforting theories of his teachers and parents alongside the facts of the human predicament as he sees and hears them. The result is irony, a tone that McPherson...