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Vitali uses one recent incident to illustrate the women's reception at the club. He describes the reaction when a woman member brought her baby into the dining room. "The baby started to cry and at the first wail all the members turned around and stared in complete silence. Then when the baby cried again, they let out a big cheer," he says...
...another scene, one of the best in the series, black-costumed Nazi "special-action squads" herd dozens of Russian Jews-played, of course, by the all-purpose Yugoslavs-into a mammoth grave, where they are to be shot. As the cameras started to roll, the peasants began to wail. "No one told them to," says Steele, "and you couldn't have dreamt of such a sound. It was just devastating, strange and keening, like the saddest tone in history. The Yugoslavs hate the Germans, and maybe something surfaced from a collective unconscious...
...happy dream: The prospering American family gathers at its bright windows to peer outside. There, in the dusk, the streets are clogged with trade-crazed foreigners, Brazilians burdened down with shoes, Koreans with shirts, Japanese revving their Hondas, bearing a million videotape recorders on their heads. The foreigners wail and gnash their teeth as they hurl their inventories against the impenetrable American trade barriers. The American economy waves smugly to the rest of the world, then settles in to savor a bit of roast beef and full employment...
...fought off the first wave of invaders. Said an Iranian officer of the packed battle scene: "Even if you shoot with your eyes closed, you are bound to hit someone." It was also a time of fervor and of exaggerated claims. In Tehran, masses of Khomeini supporters ignored the wail of air-raid sirens and marched through the capital in support of their leader. The Iranians announced they had destroyed two Iraqi divisions, but by the end of the week their offensive appeared to have stalled, leading the Iraqis to proclaim a "great victory." Meanwhile there were numerous indications that...
...sometimes reluctantly, for the past 18 years. But in blasting P.L.O. and Syrian positions in West Beirut, the Israelis also struck nearby civilian buildings, including the Soviet embassy grounds, hotels, private residences and even a sanitarium. Rescue workers dug with their hands in the rubble for victims as the wail of ambulances sounded throughout West Beirut. The acrid smell of cordite filled the air. Splintered glass and chunks of concrete littered streets lined with tottering, half-collapsed buildings...