Word: angkor
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WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Another sample of Disney's wonderful way with animals-this time elephants, shown both live on location at Angkor Wat and in animation drawn by the Disney Studios...
...enough to recall the past. Artist Boris Chaliapin reached into the past for the background of his cover painting; but in a way, it does not seem so different from the never-never land of Southeast Asia today. It is from a bas-relief in the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat, and it shows gods and demons pulling on a ropelike serpent in an effort to draw the liquid of immortality from the churning Sea of Milk...
...cloth and other gifts from his chopper upon the amazed peasants below. Sihanouk also continued a shrill diplomatic campaign that seems to assume that Cambodia, with its 5,500,000 people-a country known to many Westerners only vaguely as the locale of the magnificent, slumbering old temples of Angkor Wat-is somehow at the heart of the international scene and the center of the cold...
...dinner. There is also a viper called the Two-Step-it bites you, you take two steps and die. Bees the size of shuttlecocks kamikaze across the steaming landscape, and Cambodian cockroaches get so big they almost block traffic. Noonday temperature at Siem-reap, the site of Angkor Wat, averages 130°, and dysentery is so prevalent that it has given rise to a style of half-trot called "the Cambodian canter...
...West Was Won. Cinerama, that megalomyopic miracle, has come a long way since it took theater audiences over the top on its initial roller-coaster ride in 1952 and infected the nation's shopkeepers with an "o-rama" syndrome. Having won its spurs at Angkor Wat, it now tries an epic with a plot. No other screen could contain all the bang-banging, choo-chooing, galloping, whooping and thundering that three directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall), 13 stars, ten costars, 12,000 extras, and 1,000 buffaloes have done in How the West Was Won. Even...