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...pattern of the diary is a series of affairs strung together with little philosophies about love and art, interspersed with humorous anecdotes, the humor of which Anais Nin seems curiously unaware of. The pattern is vampirish. Anais Nin takes in men and women, makes love to them sexually, emotionally, aesthetically; they respond, adoringly, confessionally. She drains them of their passion, distills them in her diary; they stay or leave; fangs out, she hunts for more. What is particularly insidious about this pattern is that she uses the diary to bitch in. Where in the course of a relationship...
...years at Mougins she has borne the punishing weight of answering and filtering Picasso's mail, keeping his clippings up to date, dealing with the telephone, the cataloguing, the buying of food, supplies, canvas, paint and, on top of it all, calming the nerves of a high-strung and tetchy nonagenarian painter. They have produced no children. Jacqueline has a 22-year-old daughter from her previous marriage, who often visits them. But Picasso's isolation from his own offspring is nearly absolute. His first son, Paul, is now 50 and lives in Paris; his daughter by Marie...
Slap in the Face. The U.S. command has tried with only limited success to protect Pace and similar bases strung along the Cambodian border by means of B-52 raids and assaults by helicopter gunships. As a result, despite orders to keep casualties down, U.S. officers have been compelled to send Americans out on patrols to protect some bases themselves. Few G.I.s in Viet Nam these days are unaffected by the "I don't want to be the last man shot" syndrome. Thus, when such a patrol was ordered at Fire Base Pace last week, five...
...episode could have ended there, as have many before it. But some of the veterans were armed, and about 100 Vietnamese angrily surrounded the U.S. convoy. After shooting out the front tires of the first and last trucks in the nine-vehicle U.S. convoy, the veterans strung barbed wire around it and demanded the equivalent of about $9,000 to ransom the 14 Americans involved. Eight hours later the G.I.s were finally released after U.S. officers and the province chief agreed to give the veterans $720 in cash, 170 cases of salad oil and 150 cases of cereal...
...ensure that the voting would be undisturbed by demonstrators or the Viet Cong, he ordered soldiers, police and armed recruits of the Popular Self-Defense Force to patrol the streets and shoot to kill if necessary. As voters went to the polls, whole blocks of Saigon were barricaded or strung with barbed wire. Thieu also refrained from setting his sights too high; he declared that an even 50% of the vote would give him sufficient mandate for another four-year term...