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Hard cases, it is said, make bad law. Watergate and My Lai are two of the hardest cases in recent American history, for each is freighted with immense emotional and symbolic meaning. Each involves trial of subordinates while the crime may lie higher up the chain of command. The My Lai massacre became a paradigm of everything that went wrong with the American venture in Viet Nam. Enemies of U.S. policy seized upon the event to dramatize their case. The Army, anxious to protect its name, sought to isolate the tragedy and its participants as untypical of military performance...
Besides attempting to quiet Washington's fears about Portugal's change in command, Costa Gomes last week also asked Washington's help in bolstering the Portuguese economy, which is bedeviled by an inflation rate of 30% a year and the return from Africa of thousands of jobless ex-colonists. Washington is likely to be sympathetic. Not only does it want Portugal to keep its newfound democracy, but it also wants to maintain the vital U.S. air base in the Azores. During the October war in the Middle East, Portugal was the only European country that openly cooperated...
...time does Brassai treat his sitters as objects of derision or freaks. His pimps and prostitutes are denizens of a bizarre twilight world but within this world they have dignity and command respect. Bijou stares at the camera forthrightly, without embarrassment or shame. When Brassai does choose to comment, it is most likely to be in the form of a juxtaposition of incongruous images--a derelict lying on the pavement under a huge advertisement for salad dressing or a close up of the large and powerful hind quarters of a horse cleaved by a gaily braided tail...
Under such conditions, Myra is periodically able to take full command of Myron's body. This gives the narrative a Jekyll and Hyde format, with Myra eventually upstaging Myron, who every one thinks is a drag queen. Still unsatisfied by her escapades in Book I, Myra resumes her humiliation of men, inflict ing yet another hilarious outrage upon a strapping, redheaded youth out of the Van Johnson mold. She also undertakes to save Hollywood, armed with the fore-knowlege of its decline and Vidal's grasp of the industry's "future" profit-and-loss sheets. She even...
Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire for 68 years, succumbing at last at age 86, two years after the start of World War I. When Franz Joseph succeeded to its command, the Habsburg holdings included Milan and Venice, Prague and Cracow, as well as Vienna and Budapest. Within two years of his death, the empire had been reduced to the small country, centered on Vienna, that it essentially is today. The Eagles Die is the story of that Habsburg sunset, and of the golden light that Viennese culture shed in the waning days of empire...