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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOST CITIES OF ASIA by Wim Swaan. 175 pages. Putnam. $15. All five of the lost cities that are shown and described here died in battle, some several times over. Angkor in Cambodia is world-famous, but the others, though less well known, are well worth the discovery. Sigiriya, a mountain fortress in Ceylon, was abandoned after King Kassapa, disgraced in battle, committed suicide. Anuradhapura and Polonnarawa, also in Ceylon, were capital cities until their destruction by Tamil invaders; Pagan, Burma's pagoda city, gleamed with golden cupolas, bright frescoes and a forest of stupas before it was overwhelmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holiday Hoard | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...prestige he could extract from touching the hem of De Gaulle's khaki tunic. In the green-and-gold Throne Pavilion, Sihanouk made the two-star French brigadier general an Honorary Supreme General of the Royal Khmer Armed Forces. Under a great moon at the ancient temple of Angkor Wat, Sihanouk recreated the festival of the coronation of a Khmer king. Everywhere, in his toasts and speeches, the Prince was all praise, reminding De Gaulle of "your prestige, your wiseness, your clairvoyance, your sense of equity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: A Message for the U.S. | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

...time of the adventure, Malraux was a 22-year-old cubist poet. He and Clara were very broke, following a highly unartistic attempt to make a killing on the Bourse. Intrigued by archaeology, especially by a little-known Cambodian temple called Bantéay Srei on the way to Angkor Vat, Malraux got permission from the French colonial administration to explore. Off they went first-class-without a sou for the return trip. When they finally found Banteay Srei, says Clara, "It was a kind of Trianon in the jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collectors: Far Out to Jail | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

Girl copywriters had better bank the price of admission, save up plane fare, and go see Angkor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Volse Triste | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...rest of the movie, filmed in Hong Kong and at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, offers picturesque backdrops as a substitute for the subtle erosion of character. After the Patna scandal, Jim works as a coolie and coal heaver. In the Malay Archipelago, he saves a boatload of burning explosives, ferries them upriver to help the natives of the fictional land of Patusan, who are fighting a tyrant general (Eli Wallach, aping Fu Manchu). Victorious, Jim settles down with a dusky girl (Daliah Lavi), then has to dispose of villains who plan to sack the village treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Patusans & Platitudes | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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