Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America is going to war in the Balkans. Maybe not this month, maybe not this year, but soon enough we will be fighting there. Like the Vietnam conflict it so closely resembles, this war will sap our nation's energy and divert our attention from our domestic problems...
Then-president George Bush more or less brushed them off. He knew Bosnia failed the Colin Powell Test; it resembled Vietnam more than Kuwait. But candidate Bill Clinton needed-to differentiate himself from Bush on foreign policy. During the campaign, in a major address, Clinton called for an activist policy of U.S. military involvement in the Balkans...
Practice proved brutal on Bobby's knees, but not nearly as brutal as the media attention. Though he had labored from age six in his father's tobacco, bean and corn fields, had served in Vietnam and had worked on car bodies and pipes for 23 years, he had never been through anything quite like the blitz he endured last month in New York City. "It just drained me. Interview and shoot. Interview and shoot. Interview and shoot," he says, looking dazed at the memory. He heard reporters making bets that he'd miss his big shot. "They kept saying...
...armed only with his wit and a handful of clues. En route Trillin recalls a time when striving was considered something a gentleman just didn't do. After all, why should he? Postgraduate privileges were guaranteed to go along with his Yale sheepskin. And then came the '60s: the Vietnam War, the civil rights struggle, the sexual revolution. "There is a common feeling among people my age," Trillin says, "that somehow the rules got changed in the middle of the game...
...season for savvy playwrights to slip. Neil Simon's musical adaptation of his The Goodbye Girl left out the good parts, David Hwang's Face Value closed in preview, and now Lanford Wilson (Talley's Folly, Burn This) has opened REDWOOD CURTAIN, a would-be poetic musing on ecology, Vietnam, capitalism and multicultural heritage. If you think something is deeply sick in the national soul, then the play, for all its philosophical incoherence and melodrama (about a Vietnamese immigrant seeking her ex-G.I. father), may speak to you. If you live in the world most Americans inhabit, you will...