Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist buildup in the Highlands is already under way, seeping out from Laos toward the string of allied fire bases and such Special Forces camps as Dak To, where some of the bloodiest fighting of the war took place last fall. Moving in bad weather, North Vietnamese are filtering along the mountain ridges and positioning themselves close to Route 14, along which most of the 250,000 people in the Highlands live. Their aim is to capture Kontum and hold it for at least a while, thus scoring a propaganda victory; but they cannot begin to do that until they...
Nobody is going to convince Dancer's Image that a dog's life is all that bad. Consider just one week in the life of a horse. First, Dancer's Image was disqualified from first place in the Kentucky Derby; then he was disqualified from third place in the Preakness...
...lately-for donating $62,000 of Dancer's Image's winnings to Martin Luther King's widow-the idea that a stranger purposely drugged the horse is farfetched. Butazolidin is neither a stimulant nor a sedative; it cannot make a good race horse out of a bad one, or a bad horse out of a good one. Among the myriad rumors in Louisville last week was the story that someone gave Bute to Dancer's Image by accident at night, mistaking him for another horse -and the stewards gave it some credence by questioning other horsemen...
Falling in love with Yuichi is like falling in love with cruelty. But Author Mishima's world is rich in nothing if not masochists, male as well as female. For while he is at it. Yuichi gives just as bad a time to his gay boy friends, who range up the scale from waiter to automobile manufacturer...
Given the tricky and unpolished style and the ultimate anticlimax of the plot, A Dandy In Aspic isn't half bad. Although Laurence Harvey's acting capabilities enable him to register only an emotional strain of the kind plainly treatable with low-level patent medicines advertised on television, several scenes are genuinely moving, conveying the agony of a very trapped and very unhappy man. A secret service conference between Eberlin (Harvey) and his superiors contains some masterful close shots (chiefly of Harry Andrews), and indicates the high level of photographic composition and lighting in the interiors. A later confrontation between...