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...truce. The Americans invariably stand at least 6 ft. tall, and the smaller Koreans just as invariably make sure that their own chairs are slightly raised so that they cannot be looked down upon. (The Koreans' language is no less belligerent. Recent sample: "You are matchlessly brazen-faced.") It was in such a setting that U.S. Major General William Webb last week indignantly presented photos of a tunnel that North Korean infiltrators had secretly dug under the DMZ; Webb's North Korean counterpart just as indignantly replied that the evidence was all fabricated...
...while in opposition to the colonial Singapore legislature, who lamented, "Repression is like making love--it's always easier the second time. The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course, with constant repetition, you get more and more brazen in the attack and in the scope of the attack." The year before, in 1955, Lee had asked, "If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him when you cannot charge him with any offense against any written law--if that is not what we have always...
...Happy, " is the message of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, and it is in his honor that Peter Townshend wrote the "rock opera," Tommy. For us, this passivity is good advice at the movie's end, after what we've been through: a series of events so brazen and bewildering that judgement or evaluation has no place. After a horrible plane crash kills Tommy's war hero father, his mother (Ann-Margret, with much cleavage and little voice) remarries only to be walked in on late at night by the scarred figure of Husband I, thought dead. Husband...
...Saigon, the nightly curfew was advanced by two hours to 10 p.m.; even the most brazen street boys, prostitutes and soup vendors were prudently getting off the streets an hour before deadline. The capital was in no immediate danger. Yet as scare stories of Communist advances reached the city, many people began talking of leaving the country altogether. "Where do we go now?" asked Nguyen Thi Luong, an office worker who fled Hanoi in 1954. "Twenty years ago we came south. Now we're at the bottom and can't go any farther...
Janis does provide one other valuable service. For everyone who thought her singing pushed too hard, who turned off Joplin because of the brazen way she went after an audience, this movie will make clear how deeply she needed that kind of wild acceptance. When Janis talked about feeling good, it always came out forced. When she sang, though, people responded, not so much to the exultation of her music as to the plea and the desperation that lay close underneath it all. Twice in the film-after performances at the Monterey Festival and a Cavett show -we watch...