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...Then too, Filipinos prefer new faces in politics, have never elected a President to two full terms in the islands' 19 years of independence. But Marcos' flair as a campaigner may well have caused the landslide. Brimming with vigor, he stumped through virtually every barrio in the archipelago and delighted thousands of voters by warbling duets with his beauteous wife Imelda, the Miss Manila...
...latest joke craze is inventing names for imaginary discothèques. Thus, they dance the real Watusi at the Belgian Congo-Go, do the monkey at the Malay Archipelago-Go. There's a Santo Domingo-Go, a San Diego-Go, and a Pago Pago-Go. Paris's Left Bank has a new fruggery called the Vincent Van Gogh-Gogh (it's just across the street from the more famous Deux Magots-Go). Duke Ellington's new place is called the Mood Indigo-Go, and the squares out in Pasadena are in waltz time at the Long...
Along the border in Borneo, the Federation's far-flung security force-Malaysian, British and Australian-now faces an estimated 10,000 Indonesian troops. In the Riauw Archipelago, just across from Singapore, Indonesia's crack Siliwangi Division awaits President Sukarno's irredentist orders. Since late April, Malaysian patrols have annihilated four major raiding parties from the Indonesian side, severely mauled a fifth. And Sukarno's increasingly desperate "Crush Malaysia" campaign has spawned ugly new tactics. Items...
Early in their history, the Japanese learned to conserve the natural mate rials of their narrow archipelago, and their arts reflect this economy. A rice bowl, a fob (or netsuke), a lantern, kites and kimonos-each became a masterpiece of workmanship. In fact, not until the late 19th century was there even a word for fine arts, as opposed to mingei, or folk skills. As Manhattan's Asia House Gallery currently shows (see opposite page), the roots of Japanese art lie deep in its tradition of anonymous craftsmanship...
...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...