Word: talese
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Two refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia and local experts last night told tales of escape from communist troops and described the terrifying conditions in Southeast Asia to a small crowd at the Science Center.
First came an announcement from Iran's Revolutionary Council that U.S. journalists in the country must leave. Three days later in neighboring Afghanistan, the new Soviet-installed regime announced it would follow suit. By week's end the U.S. newsmen in both countries were being deported, and the...
In other tales, a couple trying to submerge their heritage in a Wasp suburb are threatened by an old yenta; if they do not give money to her charities, she will expose them to the smothering tolerance and curiosity of the Christian community. "On Passover," she warns, "you will be...
They call it the heartland, a term with appropriate connotations. When the Vietnamese boat people came to the U.S. last spring, the state of Iowa actively sought 1,500 for resettlement. When Governor Robert Ray toured Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand and returned with tales of starving children, offers of...
The story goes that Sellers read Kosinski's novel and decided the Gardiner had been created for him. In any case, he portrays perfectly the simple voice and simple gestures of this simple man whose world of TV and roses expands around him to include politics and sex without expanding...