Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkable string of sources on seven working trips to Viet Nam, including a personal interview with Ho Chi Minh on the subject of the war. From his experiences he turned out not only Street Without Joy, a military classic, but his definitive Two Viet Nams and an account of the French defeat at Dienbienphu, Hell in a Very Small Place (TIME, Feb. 10). Two months ago, Fall made a return trip to South Viet Nam on a Guggenheim fellowship for a year's study of the psychology and tactics of the Viet Cong. Just two weeks ago, his American...
...townspeople take turns moving into the spotlight to give an account, not so much of the murder, as of their own thwarted hopes and twisted lives. The 34-year-old deserted wife of a café owner has been sleeping with her handy man, a boy young enough to be her son. Another woman, admired for supporting her ancient, mentally enfeebled mother, actually beats the old lady. Eldritch also has its girlish flibbertigibbets (Susan Tyrrell and Katherine Bruce), its freak, a hunchbacked girl, and its leper, a whiskery derelict whom the local toughs mock with cries of "baaa!, baaa!" because...
...FINLAND. Helsinki's movie houses are doing big business, the reason being that Finns forsake more costly entertainment for the cinema when times get tough. Chief woes: tight money and the crimp in European markets for Finland's wood products, which account for 70% of all exports...
Protagonist of all this dubious effort is a middle-aged account executive, Eddie Anderson, who was born Evangelos Topouzoglou. A would-be Tolstoy reduced to pushing Zephyr cigarettes for an advertising agency, Eddie also moonlights as Edward Arness, writer of hatchet jobs for slick magazines. Anderson-Topouzoglou-Arness is trapped in a Los Angeles "Spanish Renaissance ranch house" with a patient wife, a confused teen-age daughter, a supply of Picassos, tabs from the liquor store, and his mate's meddling analyst. "Asleep in the dell of respectability," he awakes with a whoop after making it with Gwen Hunt...
...What could you possibly want with a still from that thing?" asked the manager's secretary. I explained to her how, on account of Arthur Kopit's being an alumnus and his play's having copped an Adams House play-wrighting contest about a decade ago, the movie seemed to have a Harvard angle. She agreed to go find the manager...