Word: caveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Operation Backfire. Almost simultaneously, South Vietnamese and U.S. forces launched another key offensive in the Boiloi Forest, 48 square miles of Communist stronghold 25 miles northeast of Saigon. Leaflets were dropped on the cave-infested region, warning all noncombatants to get out fast. More than 2,000 did. Then planes saturated the woods with chemical defoliants. After a few weeks of sunny, wind-scoured weather, the Boiloi Forest was tinder-dry. Last week U.S. bombers swept in with loads of Incendijel (an incendiary compound derived from napalm), while behind them flew C-123s dropping drums of fuel...
Episode One (The Electrical Brain) was shown this week. The next chapter (The Bat's Cave) will be shown during vacation. But don't miss any more of this serial--it's terribly camp. The Brattle has done a good thing for the cause justice...
...cross up the hill. While he was nailed to it--which made him more yang--his disciples gave him vinegar on a reed. Vinegar is very yin, and it paralyzed his nervous system, which is also, yin. He got even more yin when they placed him in a damp cave. The paralysis didn't wear off for three days...
...begin living an uproarious travesty of a bad marriage, an astutely characterized study in incompatability. Matthau is a gruff, irresponsible slob, a sort of cigar-chomping depilated bear who shambles around in his ill-kept cave. A Friday night poker-playing crony judges Matthau by a Rorschach test of his refrigerator: "I saw milk standing in there that wasn't even in the bottle." By contrast, Carney is a fuss-budgety fanatic of cleaning and cooking. The kitchen is his womb, and the apron string is his umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder...
Bennett said he met Mitchell and Miss Miller earlier in the week in Boston. When they found they had a mutual interest in cave exploring, they decided to investigate Schroder's Cave which was discovered by an Ithaca high-school principal, 25 years ago. Much of it has never been explored...