Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...headquarters of the Arab Socialist Union and there make way for a "popular funeral," in which the common people would escort Nasser's body to the burial mosque. The officials could scarcely move at all. Police tried un successfully to beat back the crowds with braided whips and bamboo sticks...
...Strut. The first half of the film is devoted to apple-pie softness and bamboo resilience. In war movies of the '40s, the Japanese were a thin yellow line. Tora! Tora! Tora!* is a refreshing reversal. The Americans tend to blend into an indistinguishable potbellied mob. It is the Orientals who are individuals. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura) is Eskimo-like in appearance, stoical in practice, goaded by an affliction no leader can afford: doubt. Lieut. Commander Fuchida (Takahiro Tamura) is an Oriental Smilin' Jack, all jaw and strut. Ambassador Nomura (Shogo Shimada), present in Washington when the bombs...
...temptation was irresistible. Vacationing with his wife in northern Kenya, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's conductor was treated to a native concert by members of the Turkana tribe. Mehta listened intently to the rhythm: the click of bottle-cap anklets on wildly swinging legs, the imperious clatter of bamboo sticks, the thunderclap of hands, the keening from scores of female throats. Then, having convinced himself that he had picked up the beat, he raised his practiced arm and for a few fascinating measures conducted some of the world's oldest and most primitive music...
...soft, bamboo-covered Senri Hills, which slope gently skyward beyond the city of Osaka, have for centuries been home only to snakes and a host of insects. Not any more; at least, not for the moment. Today the Senri range, the site of Japan's gaudy Expo '70, throbs with life. After only four weeks, the turnstiles at the 815-acre, 73-nation exhibit have clicked off 8,500,000 visitors. The one-day high: 441,000, about equal to the entire population of Buffalo, N.Y. Before the rising sun sets on the 183-day extravaganza, some...
...Vientiane's Wattay Airport, the refugees were met by Laotian government officials, loaded onto trucks and taken to reception centers. After processing, they were trucked to riverside villages, where hastily built bamboo-and-straw buildings awaited them. There seemed to be enough food but not much else. Even so, they seemed happy to be away from the guns; some of them had been living in caves on and off for two years to escape frequent bombing and shelling. As one old woman summed it up: "It was terrible. First one side came and then the other side, and they...