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Iraq now has uncontested control of Khorramshahr, up to the banks of the Karun River. But the seemingly endless rows of pockmarked or gutted houses provide vivid proof that the door-to-door fighting was bitter and bloody. Iraqi soldiers recount with incredulity how Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's zealous guardsmen, after their ammunition was exhausted, persisted in fighting to the death with sticks and knives. Said an Iraqi major who conducted some of the mop-up operations: "They were crazy. Many of them wore a gold key around their necks. They said they were told by Khomeini that...
Durst recalls the vivid joy of last year's upset. "Once you've tasted a little bit, it's awful tough not to want to taste it again. All I can remember is all of us saying, 'We can't wait till next year.' Next year is here, and it comes down to this for the title." Knowing Chuck Durst, that is the Difference...
...already finished." Thus began a slightly surreal press conference in the artist's home town of Figueras, Spain, that ended his mysterious six months of seclusion. To bring poetry to life, Dali carried an elaborate, eagle-headed sword and distributed tuberoses to reporters. His costume was no less vivid: a leopardskin coat and red barrenita cap. Answering questions in French, Spanish and Catalan, the painter declared, "I am monarchist, Catholic and Roman," but without a political creed "because nobody knows whether the Venus de Milo was a fascist or a Communist." When pressed about a Catalan government investigation into...
...NOVEL, chronicling the young reporter's struggle for Truth and the big story in the big city amidst villanous editors, grizzled and/or washed-up veterans and properly eccentric sources, gives a vivid if somewhat melodramatic picture of the most influential--except perhaps for the Peking People's Daily--newspaper in the world...
...deja vu became even more vivid when Buckley led another drive deep into Brown territory, then threw an interception. He went back to pass on second-and-ten, scrambled look for a receiver and fired the ball directly to Brown's Mike Audie, whose interception killed the drive...