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The great strength of this book is the way Branch zooms in on the dozens of local skirmishes, from Greenwood, Miss.
NYT op-ed columnist Frank Rich, who reported on his share of culture-war skirmishes as the paper's chief theater critic in the 1980s and early '90s, weighs in on the controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum's week-old exhibit "Sensation."
Russian officials deny that the Chechen skirmishes are the beginning of a full invasion; they only seek to establish a security zone to control traffic in and out of the republic, and to protect Dagestan from invasion.
Naval skirmishes ensued between the two powers, but at the end of the war of succession between Portugal and Castile, the wide-ranging Treaty of Alcaçovas ended Lisbon’s claims to the Fortunate Islands.
These sequences carry a post-Vietnam aura of futility, and the scenes between the skirmishes are similarly modern, full of rambling talk and post- Godot waiting around.