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Emergency. The guerrillas pounded Beirut International Airport and nearby army installations with Soviet-made rockets and Chinese-made mortars. The army replied with heavy cannon fire from U.S.-made tanks. Terrorists raced through Beirut streets in cars, firing machine guns and hurling bombs at military and pro-Christian political quarters. One bomb, aimed at the Lebanese Officers' Club, bounced off a wall and exploded in front of the fashionable Phoenicia Hotel. Some rockets plunged into the gardens surrounding the presidential palace...
...director whose idea of filling the frame is to put something, anything-a sink, a vase-in the foreground of every shot, makes only occasional feints toward rescuing his star. However, there is a very clever, quietly brutal assassination scene. Some estimable players-Paul Scofield, John Colicos, J.D. Cannon-are present to lend support. There is even a certain obtuse symmetry to the carnage that closes the film. ∙Jay Cocks
...last week's run, the relatively fast (twelve knots) Lucky Star came under cannon fire one night three miles south of the Cambodian border. Two 75-mm. cannon and a B40 rocket scored direct hits on the vessel's superstructure. Two tankers on Lo's stern caught 14 rockets. When Lo looked back, he saw a smaller cargo vessel, the 1,500-ton Ally, burning and beached on the riverbank. In all, ten of the 18 vessels in the original convoy decided to turn back to An Long...
...kindle his fire on wet nights, the man who keeps his canoe upright in the rapids and knows which ferns to eat for breakfast. No historical fact or weathered detail seems insignificant in Hoagland's descriptions of worlds that are fading fast. Moose hearts as big as cannon balls and bears that love to eat the Day-Glo paint off trail markers resonate quietly with his own personal references to past loves and his statistics about man's efforts to manage the wilderness...
...enemies-there is an ample supply-dismiss her as vulgar, venal, vindictive and untrustworthy, a puffball of bluff. Even some friends regard her with the affectionate respect that they might accord a pet barracuda. "The first time she asked me to a party," remembers Client Dyan Cannon, "she said, 'Will you wash your face before you come? I want people to see what you look like.' I was intimidated by her dictating, pontifical ways at first, but now I just don't let her be my mother." Her fans find her clever, charming when she tries...