Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeared for the first time: flight-suited Vietnamese air force officers who had fled with their planes, their wives, children and cousins. Colonel The Ban Huu squeezed two passengers into the second seat of his A-37 fighter and headed for Thailand. Colonel Dang Duy Lac, a transport pilot, somehow piled 200 passengers into his C-130 for the flight to Utapao. Lieut. Tring Thiet Thach, 24, who escaped from Danang two months ago by swimming to a Vietnamese navy ship, took off from Tan Son Nhut in the midst of Communist rocket attacks...
...methodical parade of pictures to be explored. The pace itself gives Antonioni's existential tendencies time to flower into unmistakable statements, momentary images which seem eternal. It is no accident that if one took The Passenger and cut it into 180,000 or however many frames, each one would somehow be complete in itself and quite beautiful. Antonioni attempts not only to please our eyes. He demands, just as he said, the respect for his frames that one "would give a painting...
...BEAUTIFUL morning, the kind that signals that the cold Boston winter has nearly faded. The sunlight radiated down upon the Mem Hall steps as I bounded gingerly across them, but the glorious weather seemed somehow incongruous with the experience I was about to undergo...
...front of "humanitarian reasons," but realized that this was somewhat inaccurate. True, while I donated my blood in part for the lives I would save. I was salving my good liberal conscience as well. I reasoned that my blood running in some body else's veins would somehow make me a better person...
Though Hersey himself does not render the verdict, his meticulous accounting supports the impression of other President watchers: the Ford White House, for all its genuine warmth, ease and candor, is somehow lacking in ideas and depth. Ford emerges as a decent caretaker, bent on restoration but not renovation of a fine house that had lately fallen into bad hands...