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Visitors to Cambodia have come away charmed by the lush beauty of the countryside and the smiling people. But the violent side of Cambodian life can manifest itself almost without warning. "Cambodians have this darkness, which is part of the shadow of their sweetness," says David Chandler, who has written a biography of Pol Pot and several histories of the country. "Many of us who keep going there still find it hard to understand." Chandler observes that Pol Pot, with his gentle voice, never failed to charm those he met. He liked to quote French poetry. This was the same...
MNEHO--movies nobody ever heard of. Signifies films played on the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable network. Applies also to classics stars such as Jeff Chandler (JC) and Virginia Mayo...
When DOROTHY CHANDLER died last week at 96, Los Angeles lost a cultural patron. Wife of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, she was the driving force behind the establishment of L.A.'s Music Center...
...Immediately after the opening number, Conductor [Zubin] Mehta turned to the audience... 'I would like you all to join me in paying homage to the one person who is most of all responsible for the creation of this edifice...' Dorothy Buffum Chandler sat shyly in her seat...while the applause rose around her. Only after four minutes, when her son Otis tugged her to her feet, did she rise and grin happily at the applauding audience...
...Buff' Chandler...almost singlehanded raised a staggering $18.5 million to build [the Music Center], and organized a company to float another $13.7 million in bonds to finish the job. It was perhaps the most impressive display of virtuoso money-raising...in...U.S. womanhood... 'What is important here tonight,' she said [later that evening], 'is not the fund raising or the building that we are in. The only really important thing here tonight is the music we heard performed. That will go on forever...