Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year 1965 was billed by the Communists as the year of victory, and it very nearly was. By May of last year the black-pajama-clad Viet Cong were roving the South with impunity. Giap's forces owned the Central Highlands. South Viet Nam's army was bloody, reeling and exhausted, its strategic reserve destroyed, and eleven of its maneuver battalions in need of complete rebuilding before they could fight again. To Giap, it seemed only a matter of time until Saigon was forced to the conference table, where he could dictate the terms: reunification and the Communist...
...Clad in his cumbersome space suit and connected to Gemini by a white, 25-ft. oxygen and communications cord, Cernan methodically began his work. He attached a rearview mirror to the docking bar near Gemini's nose so that Stafford could watch and photograph him through a forward-facing window while he maneuvered near the aft end of the craft. Just behind the hatch, he clamped a 16-mm. movie camera into place...
...boyish archvillain (Guy Stockwell) who stutters under stress. Endowed with a schizophrenia of its own, the whole movie suggests a three-way split between sophisticated sex farce, straightforward suspense, and a spy caper so whimsical that Rock and Claudia are finally sent, along with a truckload of store dummies clad in underwear, to right wrongs in a swampy Southern backwater identified as "the goose capital of America." There, with shotguns blazing and red-eyed alligators slithering toward Claudia's thighs, the whole flight of fancy turns out to be a wild-goose chase...
...clank of tank treads, the rattle of sniper fire, the sodden plop of tear-gas grenades, the sudden sky-shaking roar of strafing aircraft. Danang's chaotic clangor had its echoes in Saigon, where Buddhist demonstrators took fitfully to the streets-only to be dispersed by tough, green-clad riot cops. But beneath the sound and fury, the basic directions of the conflict were quite clear and quite chilling...
...measures.) Even the atrocity scenes, some of which seem staged, do not add up to a statement about the horror of war. The editing is either crudely ironic or very artless: after a long sequence of the torturing of a Vietcong prisoner, we cut to a group of white-clad schoolgirls singing songs...