Word: chien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brigadier General Pham Xuan Chien, onetime director of security services, who was sacked by Nhu when his ambitions began to get out of hand. He now has the virtually meaningless job of assistant chief of staff...
Viridiana (Kingsley International). In the first reel of the first important film directed by Spain's Luis Bunuel, something surreal called Un Chien Andalou (1929), the camera watches closely as Bunuel himself opens a straight razor and with surgical precision slits a woman's eyeball. From that frame forward, Moviemaker Bunuel left no doubt in anybody's mind that he intends to open people's eyes. In his masterpiece, Los Olmdados (1950), he opened people's eyes to the horrors of poverty in the Mexican slums. In Viridiana, a strange but powerful film that contains...
...Saigon, their opposite numbers were doing the same in the North Viet Nam capital of Hanoi. In this case, the military advisers were a Red Chinese mission that significantly included the commander in chief of Red China's air force. The delegation's leader, Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, described China and North Viet Nam as "lip and teeth neighbors" who maintain "fraternal cooperation and friendship in all fields." Hong Kong Communist newspapers boast that Red China will match U.S. help to Saigon with increased help to Hanoi, and imply that Marshal Yeh is Mao Tse-tung...
...small Louis XVI table. In the past year, the prices of Flemish, French and Italian Renaissance tapestries have doubled; in the past two years, the price of French 18th century furniture has quadrupled. And for the housewife or hot-dog connoisseur who really cares, a niche a chien made for Mark Antoinette brought $15,375 in Paris, and a Cézanne watercolor, Panier de Fruits, went for $16,000 in New York...