Word: chinatown
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...enterprise in the South had been abolished, the major exodus began. This belated effort to stamp out the vestiges of capitalism was a particular blow to the Chinese, who have long been among South Viet Nam's most thriving businessmen and black marketeers. In the enclave of Cholon, the Chinatown of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Chinese merchants had succeeded in cornering the trade in black-market rice, as well as such luxury goods as American bourbon, Algerian orange juice, German cameras and Tiger Balm from Hong Kong. Ideologically outraged by this and other flagrantly capitalistic enterprises...
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...marks the directing debut of Cinematographer John A. Alonzo (Chinatown), who here reveals some rather provocative notions about film making. FM seems to be two hours of unedited footage thrown together without regard for the admittedly old-fashioned niceties of narrative movies; indeed, at any given moment, it is impossible to decipher what is going on in FM or to identify the characters onscreen. It is also quite difficult to make out what anyone is saying. In what must be the most innovative use of sound since Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Alonzo...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Phyllis George, 28, former Miss America (1971) turned television sportscaster; from Robert Evans, 47, successful Hollywood producer (The Godfather I and II, Love Story, Chinatown); after eleven months of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
With lion dances, fireworks and displays of martial arts, residents of Boston's Chinatown ushered in the Year of the Horse in a traditional New Year's celebration last Sunday...