Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrive, and for the time it took to read them, I would lay aside, say, Wolff's The Rich Brother, a brooding short story about two brothers joined by fear and hatred, or O'Nan's novel The Names of the Dead, about a man who cannot leave the Vietnam War behind...
...deal Die Hard-style with international terrorists when they make the mistake of commandeering his plane. "He's not a ninja or anything," explains Armyan Bernstein, one of Air Force One's four producers, "but he knows how to fight." The back story is that this President served in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for fighting his way out of the jungle after a crash. "At last," went one of the film's proposed (and rejected) advertising slogans, "America has a kick-ass President." The ways in which real Presidents respond to terrorism...
...hold its Chinese food to the same standard that we hope it uses to select the rest of its entrees: choose meals that a sane person could be expected to eat. No rational individual would ever eat Grade F chicken covered with the substances used to defoliate trees in Vietnam...
...sadness, this is still an engaging play, and the AAA players' interpretation was especially intriguing. Though the script remained unchanged for the most part, the Americans here were Asian-Americans, the Russians became Chinese and Budapest was transplanted to a city in Vietnam to "make Chess contemporary and applicable for us in the '90s," according to the director's note. Two traditional Vietnamese songs--"Ly Ngua O" and "Ly Chieu Chieu"--were beautiful additions to the script. Twice during the play, slides were shown on the back wall of the set. The first set of slides featured professional Asian-American...
...dreams at the NSC, only to see it be his undoing. "I consider this a personal tragedy," says Richard Holbrooke, who entered the foreign service with Lake and served with him in Saigon. "Tony was the most brilliant of the young group that came up together in Vietnam...