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...resembled the conditions they would encounter once they went into action. In Chechnya I met young boys sent off to war almost immediately after they were drafted. One brigade, which arrived directly from Siberia, was dispatched into Grozny at night, knowing nothing of the city, in a fog so thick you could barely see 10 steps ahead. The commander of a tank battalion told me that he had to train his soldiers at the front, since they had been assigned to him only days before the unit was deployed in Chechnya. ``You wouldn't believe it,'' he told me. ``There...
...memories are always thick at the Beanpot, where college hockey hands out the bragging rights for Boston. And this year, as the tournament makes its last visit to the Boston Garden, they are thicker than ever...
...anchorage for container ships tended by towering cranes on rails turned in a moment into a deflated souffle. Much of the ground fell by a meter, judging by one grating that hung skewered atop a drain pipe high above the sunken surface. Worst of all, the groundslip destroyed the thick concrete perimeter wall, which rolled 45 and burst open a gap into the freight yards. Dozens of tractor-trailer trucks and shipping containers slid into the sea-washed breach. Behind the quay wall, strains tore apart the rails carrying dozens of four-legged cranes, behemoths that cost $10 million apiece...
...using his melting pulchritude to best advantage. Virna Lisi, who took the acting prize at Cannes, gives the best performance in the movie. Her take on Catherine de Medici moves between the campy and the affecting. Those who speak French may have to fight the temptation to imitate her thick Italian accent. Playing Catherine de Medici as a cross between a mafia boss and an overprotective mother, Lisi makes her the only three-dimensional character in the movie...
...show, but it is worth remembering for its origins. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Kline had an entirely traditional training at the Art Students League in Boston, wanted to be an illustrator and studied for a time (1936-38) in London. He was imbued with the thick-massed but linear realism that came out of the Ashcan School and filled the cartoons that John Sloan and others did for periodicals like the New Masses. He doted on Krazy Kat (as did his friend Philip Guston) and the superstylish illustrations of John Held Jr. The black-and-white tradition...