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Ordinary Americans and Englishmen and Canadians and others, now in late middle age, will come as well. They will wander over the pastoral killing ground. They will search in the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer for the graves of friends they fought beside. They will think of themselves singing as they set off from England, "Glory, glory, what a hell of a way to die..." They will remember exactly the spot where they were pinned down by German machine guns, or where a shell blast sent a truck pinwheeling. They will go up again to Pointe du Hoc and shake...
Above the beach in the village of Colleville-sur-Mer, Fuller headed for an old café he remembered and asked for Joseph Brobant, the first French civilian he had seen. Brobant had come running down the road toward the advancing troops, carrying a shovel. "It's a wonder we didn't shoot him," says Fuller. "We were told to shoot at anything that moved on that road." Brobant, who had been forced into virtual slave labor by the Germans, excitedly indicated to the American infantrymen that he had just killed three of his captors with his shovel. Now 82, Brobant...
...crowd the FM radio band. Their size varies from that of Radio Service Tour Eiffel, a 1,500-watt operation that is indirectly backed by Paris Mayor Chirac, to Radio Panorama, operated by a baker and his wife with a 500-watt transmitter in their garage in suburban Vitry-sur-Seine. The private stations have taken an estimated 20% of the audience away from the five established, and at least partly state-controlled, stations that monopolized the air waves until 1982. Surveying everything from religious sermons to gay rights, the raucous newcomers have provided a voice for all manner...
What Balthus now produces, most of the time, is salon art; and one longs for that vulpine sharpness, that coexistence of sur face calm and predatory desire, that made him the sometimes rather disagreeable poet he once was. - By Robert Hughes
...dialogues and internal narrative fall flat for most of the book. It just doesn't ring true and is full of hollow platitudes and philosophical nonsense. Says one general to Converse: "Voltaire said it best in his Discours sur I' homme. Essentially he wrote that man attained his highest freedom only when he understood the parameters of his behavior." But not to be outdone in the philosophical merry-go-round, another general tells Converse: "Goethe said it perhaps better when he insisted that the romance of politics is best used to numb and quell the fears of the uninformed...