Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justice for All may be the worst thing to happen to Baltimore since the War of 1812. If this movie is to be believed, Maryland's largest city has a legal system that would make a police state seem appealing. The judges are all psychotic or perverts or worse; the lawyers are all self-serving hypocrites; the cops all regard suspects as "scum." When criminals go to jail-usually on trumped-up charges-they invariably get murdered shortly after incarceration. Indeed, if the American hero of Midnight Express had come from Baltimore, there would have been no reason...
...little fresh information. The flash point came at the first taping session, devoted almost entirely to Kissinger's part in the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Frost set the tone by summarizing the position of Kissinger critics, a position he plainly shared: "Your policy engulfed Cambodia in the war . . . and it set in train a course of events that was to destroy the country...
...year rule, developed-well, a fungus and parasites. He was shipped to Paris to be cured of the condition. Back in Cairo, Ramses II went on display again, along with a plaque noting that in 1258 B.C. he and Hattusilis, great chief of the Hittites, ended a 20-year war with an agreement that neither would pass into the land of the other "or take anything therefrom." "Good, good," nodded Sadat, reading the plaque. Of course. It was a Middle East agreement 3,236 years older than his own Camp David concordat with Israel's Menachem Begin...
Mailer has tested this magic on the Viet Nam War, American presidential politics, the women's movement, the moon program. He tries it now upon another American public event that possessed, even before he wrote about it, a certain Mailerian quality: the execution, early in 1977, of Gary Gilmore, 36, a Utah murderer who refused to appeal his conviction and death sentence and demanded that the state kill him. Utah obliged, but only after a ritual that turned Gilmore into a grotesque celebrity. Shortly before the prisoner was seated in front of a dirty mattress to face the firing...
...War and Remembrance, Wouk...