Between them steps Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), the quiet young American who has come to Vietnam, he believes, to save it. Eventually he also believes he will save Phuong. Young men like old ones find it easy to believe hired love is real, and so believe a girl like Phuong would prefer a young man to an old one, when all youth represents is more work.
Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American (1955) told the story of this triangle against the background of America's adventure in Vietnam in the early 1950s--when, he shows us, the CIA used pleasant, presentable agents like Pyle to pose as " Read More...
The best parmesan cheese is more than a topping for pasta and caesar salads. During the very earliest days of the pandemic, when no one was sure what was going on or if going to the supermarket was safe, I experimented with picking up groceries from a local Italian restaurant here in L.A. that started operating as a market. I require snacking cheese in my diet, and the only cheese they had? Read More...
Hope, ND – The Mayville State University community is grappling with profound sadness following the devastating news of the sudden passing of Katie Richards, Director of Student Success and Disability Support Services. Katie, a renowned figure in the University of North Dakota’s Athletic Hall of Fame, was tragically involved in a fatal car accident early Thursday morning in Reynold.
The incident, which occurred around 12:10 A.M., unfolded as Katie’s southbound 2021 Buick Enclave veered off 22nd Avenue NE, approximately eight miles west of Reynolds in Traill County, and somersaulted multiple times. Read More...