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The urban shootout was the latest escalation in the well-organized Mujahedin's struggle to topple Khomeini. It demonstrated that the guerrillas have retained their command structure, organizational efficiency and firepower despite the purges by the embattled regime. Including the 195 people shot last week, 2,150 opponents of...
Conrad did eventually find his liter ary place, but never the financial security to which he aspired. Critical successes like Almayer's Folly and Lord Jim produced little money. Like most authors, Conrad was bitter about writers whose books were inferior but sold better.
The camera is, it seems, the me chanical dandy par excellence. It is also the model of free choice. Sontag gives a wry account of the uses of photography in China, where "candid" shots are considered insulting and counterrevolution ary; there, photography, like every other mode of language, exists mainly...
"I'd hold up the camera and I'd say, 'Can I take it?' Sometimes people would run, and sometimes they'd stay still," recounted Julie Nixon Eisenhower, describing her first stab at photography during a twelve-day visit to China earlier this month. "I...
Among more pressing issues ad dressed in The Wilby Conspiracy is the matter of how Sidney Poitier, shackled by handcuffs, manages to . . . well, relieve himself. Mr. Poitier often finds himself in dilemmas of this kind. You will recall, for example, that in The Defiant Ones (1958), where Poitier ran about...