Word: burma
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Died. Robert M. ("Joe") Cannon, 75, retired Army lieutenant general, who served as chief of staff to General Joseph Stilwell in the China-Burma-India theater from 1943 to 1945 and, immediately following the war, commanded a task force that disarmed the Japanese forces and destroyed their war materiel on the islands between Okinawa and Formosa; of a heart attack; in Wilton, Conn...
...region's healthiest film industries, but elsewhere in Southeast Asia film production is skimpy. Indonesia produced 35 titles last year, but imported another 400. Malaysia's production is even more paltry, though the government recently announced plans to establish a national film corporation. In socialist Burma there remain 100 privately owned companies. But only ten have their own cameras, and the government restricts the import of film. All of Burma's movie houses have been nationalized. South Korea produced 94 films last year. But the melodramas were so low grade that they are never likely...
...food craze, at least among the elites: Sezchuan-style Chinese cuisine. That's easy at about five different Harvard, Central and Inman Square restaurants. For lunch, the Square abounds in the $2.50-$3.50 meals: The Rendevous, with some fine Vietnamese cuisine downstairs (owned by Saigon's former ambassador to Burma), Bartley's and Buddy's Sirloin Pit for hamburgers, Nornie-B's for reuben and sandwich esoterica, the 1955-like Tommy's Lunch for more conventional sandwiches and pinball, and the Underdog, which restores one's faith in the possibilities of cheap lunches and great American hot dogs with various...
...make sure it's under five minutes, then type up a copy to bring over to the Loeb. I picked out something from Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell that I read in tutorial last year and was real gripping because it tells the story of this guy in Burma somewhere being a British colonialist and one day has to shoot an elephant that's gone "must" (in heat). There's a lot of dramatic tension in the story because he really doesn't want to shoot the elephant, but does anyway because he feels under pressure from...
...lies down on the road and lets the elephant have it between the eyes. With 300 people on the edges of their seats, wearing your tuxedo and standing above them, you sort of forget who you are, you get high, and you think you really are in Burma shooting the elephant. There was this guy in the third row the whole time smiling and nodding his head--I could see him even with my glasses off--and that was how I knew I was doing well. It even gets to be, while you're speaking, that you have the whole...