Word: hauntedness
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The American trajectory generally arcs into the future, not the past. The nation's promise tends to override its memories. The best life lies ahead, like a highway heading west. There are American ghosts, of course, haunted rooms, secrets in the attic. But the virtue of the New World has...
Fortunately, I usually wake up at this point, but I am still left haunted by that question, "Why don't people get in volved here?"
A paparazzo's flash ruptures privacy. A photographer's strobe can be softer: illusion backlit in short bursts. It is not glamour flashing in Stephanie's haunted blue-green eyes, though. Whatever she wears, however she holds herself, she seems to stare straight past the lens, resisting any easy truce...
The highlight of the early evening was driving through dog crap, an event which not only haunted us nasally for some time afterwards, but elicited the first good story.
James Wilde, now TIME's Nairobi bureau chief, is haunted most by an experience in March 1965. "I spent 48 hours in a pouring monsoon helping to load the dead of the South Vietnamese 5th Airborne Battalion onto helicopters," Wilde remembers. "There were 453 of them, including six U.S. advisers...