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...want a third world war," he said. "I want to ask more questions. I want more discussion and debate." He asked more questions, and he got more discussion and debate, and he made up his mind. "I've got a little weak spot in my stomach," he said. "The answer...
...preferred active reporting to desk work. He quit the University of Illinois in his junior year to go to work for the Chicago Sun-Times, later covered robberies, fires, riots for NBC news in Chicago. On one occasion, he reported a cops-and-robbers gunfight while sprawled on his stomach with bullets whizzing over his head. His coverage of the 1956 presidential campaign impressed Adlai Stevenson enough to offer him a job on a projected White House staff. While reporting the last Republican convention, Chancellor suffered the indignity of being carted out of the hall by the cops...
...four dead rebels lay along a hallway; another seven were stacked in a small room. Both operating rooms were full, and one of the two washrooms had been converted for emergency service. On a table in the morgue lay a two-year-old boy caught in a crossfire, his stomach full of shrapnel; next to him was the corpse of André Rivière, a French soldier of fortune who was one of Caamaño's top aides. When they carted him out, a young rebel dramatically poked a finger into Riviére's still...
...rest bolted for a ditch by a road. But one hulking figure, a Leica camera bobbing about his neck, threw himself against a hut and started snapping pictures. In the bloody melee, he took some memorable ones: a ranger as he was hit, his hand clutched to his stomach; a Viet Cong, his head popped up over a bunker to stare with surprise at the camera lens; a fallen ranger and the Viet Cong who shot him, barely 30 feet apart...
...same influences, suddenly wake up? Why should he be able to recall traumas from repression when anyone else would need an analyst? The death of a Puerto Rican boy who intercepts a bullet meant for Nazemann seems far too circumstantial. Also questionable is Lumet's use of stomach-turners, such as the sequence where Nazemann jabs a long pin through his hand...