Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shantytown, known as Fortaleza, teems with an ever growing population of abandoned women and children. Some are widows, like the one who two months ago, unable to provide enough food, poisoned her children, then herself. Others tell of husbands, brothers and fathers who offended a soldier or national guardsman. Sometimes the bodies were found; more often they were consigned to the black hole of statistics known as "the disappeared...
...older ones, so mindfully tend ancestral memories. "Preserving our heritage helps us hold on to cherished values and pass them on to future generations," said the FDA's official historian, Judith MacKnight Jones, 71. She has chronicled the Confederate immigration to Brazil in a book titled Soldado Descansa (Soldier Rest). With a certainty that transcends national labels, she adds, "And that's important in a world where values are changing for the worse...
...convulsive sex. But this is not a horror story, though there are horrors for the Rohans to endure. And though their ordeal was unusual, Boorman makes it close to universal. Every family lives in a war zone of its own circumstances and compromises; most families find the strength to soldier on. Boorman is even gracious enough to cap his film with an idyllic reunion of clan Rohan. Mum and her sisters giggle conspiratorially; young Bill, now a gentleman of precious leisure, goes boating on the river. These are images every moviegoer can share as he closes Boorman's lovely memory...
...That said, however, an admirer must admit that Vonnegut's novelizing occasionally ticks on reflexively when there seems to be nothing in particular on his mind. So with Bluebeard, whose hero is a wealthy, one-eyed old man named Rabo Karabekian, a magazine illustrator in his youth, then a soldier during World War II, then, briefly, an acclaimed abstract expressionist painter. There is a random quality to this history: Why one- eyed? Why a painter and not a cellist? Rabo's recollections are wistful and charming, but vaporous. The graceful pages are a gifted author's daydreams, but they never...
...borders. "I think Bruce Springsteen is a blind nationalist," proclaims the former trooper in the easy drawl he has copied from Florida deejays. "Sure! Just look at that title, Born in the U.S.A.!" Even here, though, things are not quite as clear as they seem. In the ex-soldier's spacious home off once splendorous Fifth Avenue, a picture of Che Guevara stares across at an equally large poster of Barry Manilow. Downtown in central Havana, a 15-year-old schoolgirl goes him one better. On top of her dresser she has carefully fashioned a collage of her three great...