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John William Tuohy lives in Washington DC

I’ll read my books


 “I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.”
J. D. Salinger, A Boy in France




This iconic image






The iconic promotional image of Willem Dafoe with his hands raised in anguish from movie “Platoon” was inspired by a real photo.  This April 1968 file photo shows the first sergeant of A Company, 101st Airborne Division, guiding a medevac helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties suffered during a five-day patrol near Hue, Vietnam, April 1968.  “When I look at that picture now, I say, ‘If I can survive that, I can survive anything,’” said Tim Wintenburg, who in the photo helps carry a wounded soldier over brush hacked away to create a helicopter landing zone. Sgt. Maj. Watson Baldwin has his arms raised to guide in a helicopter that would take away the wounded men, including one shot in the leg by the Vietnamese soldier who was firing at Brown. Baldwin died in 2005, according to Fort Campbell officials who recently tracked down soldiers in the photo.

Almost is good enough



 In this century, beauty stopped being important. Art increasingly aimed to disturb and break moral taboos. It was not beauty, but originality, however, achieved and at whatever moral cost, which won the prizes. Roger Scruton, Why Beauty Matters