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TIME Correspondent John Borrell was finishing his dinner around midnight in the luxurious Summerland hotel just south of Beirut when a large, bedraggled group arrived for a late supper. Borrell did a double take: here were 32 hostages who had been roused from their beds Friday night for what was intended to be a farewell meal. Borrell, the only reporter in the restaurant when the hostages arrived, sent this account...
...theory of management. Sometimes he invited prospective victims to his all-night dinners (about 10 p.m. to dawn) and later had the NKVD take them off to be shot. One ruler in Central Africa is said to have murdered hundreds of his people and sometimes eaten them for supper...
...America, it is the people who eat the politicians for supper. Public vanishing is a dramatic spectacle usually because it has to do with power and its loss. If a politician gives a speech and there is no one there to hear it, has he made a sound? Ask Harold Stassen. He knows something about the riddle of the tree falling in the empty auditorium...
...SWANSON'S not the kind of guy most people would invite home for supper. Sure you can sit down and have a beer together--in fact, he'll probably suggest it. But Swanson's just a little bit, well, intense. He talks about sports the way most people argue about politics, and if you want to talk politics you'd better mean...
...writhe in pain; how the dead sprawl. Hence the vividness of Abraham's gesture in The Sacrifice of Isaac, holding his wailing son down on a rock like a man about to gut a fish, even though the landscape behind them is Venetian in its pastoral calm. In The Supper at Emmaus, the characters seem ready to come off the wall, as Christ makes his sacramental gesture over the food. This insistence, this feeling of a world trying to burst from the canvas, is epitomized in one detail of the Supper--the basket of fruit, perched on the very brink...