Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong-who are accustomed to seizing a large part of it for their own supplies. Navy doctors and corpsmen are treating more than 500 civilians a day in forward military Marine areas. To the peasants lined up for sick call, the marines hand out food, clothes, toys and soap (donated in 100-ton lots of slightly used bathtub bars by the Sheraton and Hilton hotel chains), on occasion have even fed the peasants' livestock and rebuilt their pens. They have built schools and paved over the long-unused Saigon-Hué railroad to make the only road...
...nose knows. Cool pools in the middle of the desert turn out to be heat vapor or over-the-horizon reflections. A bartender can suddenly split into identical twins. But drop a blindfolded man into the middle of a place that whiffs of tanned calfskin, saddle soap and cordovan polish. Is he in a shoe store? Not necessarily...
...differed in kind but not in degree from Dante and Shakespeare. He wrote a hundred times more than either of them-his collected works fill 150 volumes-and consequently more of what he wrote is dated; The Sorrows of Young Werther, for instance, reads in this unsentimental century like soap opera written in gold ink. But his finest works-Iphigenia, Tasso, Elective Affinities-embrace a massive range of experience, and in them all the print still lies warm on the page. Finally there is Faust, a masterpiece more than 60 years in the making, in which Goethe presents a central...
...then the kissing. Sundays are the worst. She loathes yelling the afternoon away at the soccer match; he can't stand concerts. Director Luciano Salce watches them so well, as they quarrel about money and friends and whether to go out or stay home, that even the familiar soap-opera material comes alive-the painful propinquity of two sour, seedy people sharing the bathroom in the morning, the wife-switchy tension that flickers beneath the surface as a bored foursome takes a Sunday drive...
...terrorists preach the usual Communist line about capitalist exploitation and free land for all, attempt to counter the government's own considerable efforts at aid and social reform among the Indians by warning that free flour is distributed merely to fatten the Indians, the better to make soap of them later...