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after the vessel was located trying to secure it for the lift, but the incoming tide prevented an attempt...
...been hit by Druze or Syrian fire and made emergency landings in Cyprus. The pilots, to their credit, had been operating under difficult conditions, using a highway strip to the north of Beirut for takeoffs and landings. The pilot of the downed plane was rescued by a U.S. naval vessel...
...muscles quiver as she heaves and finally lifts two huge buckets of pig livers for the third-class passengers. She staggers, makes it, totters up the gangplank. She is followed by other young women, beasts of burden, staggering under the bales, the cartons, the loadings of the vessel. I am pleased to watch them revolt, screaming, shaking fists at the forewoman who commands them. But next morning I am passing through the stark wonder of the gorges themselves and come to Gezhou Ba, the great dam that is the first to harness the Yangtze since nature began melting the snows...
...managed to climb back onto the vessel and, expecting to die, changed into his best suit. Then he huddled on the stern, trapped between towering flames and the cold sea. At last, four hours later, a rescue-helicopter pilot spotted Vea through the smoke and flew within ten yards of the burning deck to winch him to safety. Vea described his ordeal as "uncomfortably hot." Thirty-two other crew members were safely taken from lifeboats by a trawler; three men are presumed dead...
...least "real" of the five: thick, ropy painting that takes a stand among images of the physical world but ends up looking quite unconcerned with them. He paints bathers, bottles or trees upside down, without offering a moment's access of feeling to this body, this vessel, this plant. His art is all generalization. Baselitz, 45, calls his subjects motifs, and that is what a motif is-a repeatable module on which an act of painting can be displayed. You take a motif and rough it up; then you take another motif and rough that up in much...