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...commuters fought vainly against the white wasteland of Lake Success. Others gave up; one French delegate (ignoring all traffic signals because of U.N. immunity) spent his time skiing down Manhattan's Park Avenue. Even the U.N. bar was almost deserted. One afternoon, a silent figure joined a handful of hardy newsmen. Over his whiskey, he growled: "Thash the trouble with thish place. Not an Irishman around." Anonymously, he disappeared...
Another full-length film, The Great Betrayal (Screencraft; Idea Film), concentrates on the incalculable labor that has gone into raising up Zion out of wasteland. It is photographed harshly and powerfully, and cut in the manner more brilliantly developed by Sergei Eisenstein. Despite its repetitiousness, the best of the film is an impressive-and exhausting-screen poem about hard work, and the profound sense of identity with a piece of the world that grows...
...would give a bad impression if printed in the magazine." After considerable argument Gruin was allowed to take two shots, carefully outlined before snapping. Then, for a firsthand view of the area where Chinese and Mongolian troops had been having a border fracas, they trucked across the gravel wasteland north of Tihua to Peitashan, a mountain oasis. Of this journey, Gruin wrote...
...while 1,200 Gaglianoese lived in Gagliano, 2,000 were living in New York. America was simultaneously the Promised Land and a steel-and-concrete hell; it was the prison house of cruel labor from which came marvelous scissors, razors, blue-bladed axes and dollar bills-the rich wasteland into which Gagliano's sons and husbands often disappeared without a trace, or died of exhaustion, comfortless and forgotten...
...many Americans, Alaska is a remote, glacial wasteland remembered vaguely as: 1) a sprawling territory, twice the size of Texas, which the U.S. acquired from Russia in a forgotten real-estate deal; 2) the site of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley (20,464 feet); 3) home ground of Robert Service's The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush...