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...LIGHTS ARE LOW and the music spins along. Nick's eyes are set in a determined fog, he is on his way to his ninth beer and suddenly he looks like a stranger. His arm is around the skittish girl...
...large, cheap boarding houses and watch their money carefully. They read "Carlos Marx," organize their own discussion sections on Franz Fanon, listen to Radio Havana on shortwave sets, and talk much more quietly in the streets outside the university, lowering their voices or quickly changing the subject when a stranger approaches. They seem less remote from the daily life of their country than North American students, more readily conversant with the practical aspects of the problems facing the poor--nutrition, for instance, or the conditions of rural labor. Some of them are undoubtedly swept up in the political currents: Latin...
...violent enough. It does not catch at all the awful mystical grace that can draw and hold a man to such a life. The violence is held down, whereas the intricacies of the Yakuza are too extensively explained. The movie would have been more chilling had it been stranger, if all the ritual and violence were part of a world that was wholly mysterious - and therefore more immediate, more threatening...
...pictures of my friends and relatives and elementary school and underneath the pictures, in white ink, I wrote, "my best friend, Sara; my second best friend, Debbie; my school..." I still occasionally leaf through those pictures because they conjure up memories and associations, but I suspect that if a stranger found my book, he would think it quaint and naive, but little else...
...with academic experts, arms manufacturers and dealers, but the main files came from Washington. There, Joseph Kane, who covers the Pentagon, and Jerry Hannifin, our expert in military and aerospace technology, collaborated to analyze the policies and hardware of the world's largest arms purveyor: the U.S. No stranger to weapons or military politics, Kane commanded a howitzer battery in the peacetime Army in Germany in the early 1950s. As Atlanta bureau chief he directed coverage of the William Galley court martial, last year reported for our cover story on Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and the U.S.-Soviet arms...