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...offers no analysis of why the U.S. was there in the first place. This is a book about Americans, for Americans who experienced the war vicariously. Above all, Dispatches is an effort to bring the real war into the living rooms of middle America--the war that lay underneath the technocratic camoflauge. It is not a comfortable book, but it rings true, down to the very last image of a body wrapped in green plastic, tied to a helicopter pontoon...
...mind-game. The initial minutes would be the most intimidating, as you took in the scenery that greets every new in-mate upon arrival. The stacked rows upon rows of cells stretching up to the roof, the paint on the cell bars chipping away to expose the constraining iron underneath, the echoing cacophony of voices rebounding against the unadorned walls of the block. The mere sights and sounds of the prison would be sufficient to inject a generous dose of raw terror into even the most jaded newcomers. The foregoing, needless to say, has only served as a fitting warm...
...yards and rock music echoed through the forests. Within a few years, Bridgeville had turned into a rural slum in the middle of God's country. Wrecked cars now lie forlornly about. The main water system and septic tanks are broken, as are the toilets in apartments underneath a sagging pink dance hall. "This used to be a great, far-out place, lots of parties and no hassle," said Rabbit, one of the final dozen hippies who last week evacuated their grimy quonset hut on the edge of town. He added...
Located on Brattle St. underneath the Truc complex, the Club Casablanca (or the Casa-B, as the regulars call it), is the place to go to meet the kind of people your parents sent you here to meet. Not surprisingly, the drinks are fairly expensive, but they're good and there's often good jazz. Watch out for the alligators...
...underneath these memories of youth or young manhood, which are always the easiest memories to come by--that is, the easiest literary memories to come by (for who is so displeased with him- or herself at 20 that he or she won't be happy to tell anyone who will listen about it 15 years later?), there lies another level of recollection: hazier, more mist here, less lyricism, less control over one's past self...