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...series of fits and starts, with little coherence while they are experienced, so Paul and Adriana's passion and despair, their conversations and lovemaking, occur in non-linear succession, separated from one another by the flash on the screen of the day's date and the unsettling sound of random, atonal notes played on percussion instruments...
...view camera--are storefronts, factory towns, sharecroppers and their homes, statues, gas stations, 18th century Southern mansions, peeling posters, signs. His photographs are either very frontal--showing, with seeming naivete, an object or building in its surroundings--or they are shot from what appears to be a random, arbitrary view, as one would happen upon something while walking down a street. This "snapshot" approach has become the vogue in recent years with such photographers as Bill Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, and, to some extent, Robert Frank, and these last three are, indeed, the photographers Evans named as his favorite...
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...well into the second half. Like a sonnet reader who calls attention to each iamb, Adams tended to emphasize the repetitive Baroque rhythms at the expense of larger phrases. Part of this problem can be traced to the widespread malady of the pick-up orchestra. This was the usual random group of instrumentalists thrown together to accompany a university choral group and as usual, they plagued the performance with ragged entrances, shaky ensemble, and a sight-reader's insensitivity to the meaning of the music...
...section under government control that the Communists were not far away. At midweek units of the North Vietnamese army and its Viet Cong allies started probing key government positions in the Saigon area. Often, as at Tay Ninh, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, the attacks were no more than random artillery or rocket barrages. At Tan An, which straddles strategic Highway 4 and is only 20 miles southwest of Saigon, Viet Cong commandos overran the airstrip and held it for eight hours before government troops drove them...