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...Dryer's caricature bore more than a passing resemblance to the 750 reporters and 300 photographers who descended on Los Angeles last week to watch the Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers collide in Super Bowl XIV. For seven days, the National Football League virtually immobilized the journalists in a thick public relations syrup. Upon arriving they were given a designer carryall, a briefcase and enough press handouts to reconstruct a tree. They were bused to mind-numbing press conferences and interview sessions, and courtesy cars were available if they wanted to take a drive. Coffee, juice and pastry were served...
Over the next two hours, captives and captors exchanged pleasantries in French, and the newsmen learned that the Soviets are quite delighted to be in Afghanistan. A middle-aged private showed off his thick, standard-issue felt boots. "They are for Siberia," he said proudly. A lieutenant ventured that Soviet soldiers prefer liquid warmth, and are glad to receive "100 grams of spirits a day." Throughout, the smiling Soviets never lowered the Kalashnikovs...
...until April, that should lead the eye across the sloping ground of the pasture, then into the woods beyond, has accomplished the ultimate deceit by not falling out of the sky. The car rumbles by on the dirt road in front of the house, and its wheels churn thick whirls of dust...
...decade was erected upon the smoldering wreckage of the '60s. Now and then, someone's shovel blade would strike an unexploded bomb; mostly the air in the '70s was thick with a sense of aftermath, of public passions spent and consciences bewildered. The American gaze turned inward. It distracted itself with diversions trivial or squalid: primal screaming, disaster movies, jogging, disco, Perrier water, pornography. The U.S. lost a President and a war, and not only endured those unique humiliations with grace, but showed enough resilience to bring a Roman-candle burst of spirit to its Bicentennial celebrations...
Obolensky calls her book "a portrait in photographs" of the Russian Empire between the mid-1850s and 1914. Her selection is, as it should be, highly personal, with quality and design elements as the governing considerations. Large, thick, and superbly laid out on beautiful paper, the book is a triumph of commercial publishing...