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...same quiet sense of perspective keeps the pace under superb control and frames the shots with a touch that is most deft for being so unarbitrary: Polanski cuts skillfully into shots through windows, mirrors, bamboo curtains, cameras, binoculors, but the only cut that seems personal, intrusive, cruel, is the one he applies in character to Nicholson, but he does that with finesse...
...demonstrators "jerks." "Today we see that a bunch of adolescents would claim more merit than those who have fought for 20 years," he declared. In pro test, the leftists began leaving the plaza -closely pursued by right-wing Peronistas, who chased them down side streets, beating them with bamboo staves. The day's toll: 90 wounded...
RUBIN'S BUON YUN has had to make some adaptations to modern Vietnam: for instance, it's encircled by rows of fire-hardened bamboo spikes and anti-personnel mines set between two fences of nine-foot wooden stakes. But inside, people live much as they always have--the way the French travelers and the American Army's books said they lived, and the way Rubin knew them as a sergeant in the U.S. Special Forces from 1962 to 1964. There are about 30 longhouses in the village, with wooden piles underneath them to keep out floods and give the pigs...
...range of foods from many lands to be sampled includes Indonensian "satay" (beef tidbits on bamboo skewers), Polish "golabki" (stuffed cabbage), German potato salad and American barbecued ribs. Others include Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, Egyptian, French, Greek, Hawaiian, Indian, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Scottish, Turkish and Ukrainian dishes. For those with a sweet tooth there will be many pastries and an international candy booth...
...Bill Braman, a carpet wholesaler from Minneapolis, and his wife Ginny have their 12-ft. bamboo pole set up, aflutter with a weathered Vikings pennant. It marks their "Outside Stadium Club"-a takeoff on the posh inside Stadium Club for wealthy ticket holders. "Only difference," says Ginny, "is that they have a toilet and we don't." The Bramans, pioneers of Minnesota tailgating, have been throwing parties since 1961. They are traditionalists with rules for their party: no gambling, no chewing out the players after a bad game, no hard liquor. The restrictions do not deter Vikings players from...