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...history of Viet Nam is full of heroines. Women often served as gen erals. In the 1st century A.D., the Trung sisters raised an army and started a rebellion against Viet Nam's Chinese overlords; one of their female com manders gave birth to a child on the battlefield, then strapping her infant on her back and brandishing a sword in each hand, led her troops against the Chinese. In 248, a 23-year-old girl put on a suit of golden armor, climbed on the back of an elephant, and led her army into the field against Viet...
...another and all of them have incomes that are astronomical by comparison with the av erage established TV writer's take of about $20,000 a year. Silliphant will not even consider writing an hour-long script for less than $10,000 (although he magnanimously charges his own com pany only $5,000 per script). But the real money comes from residuals and royalties and from owning a piece of the show. "The rich writers today are the proprietors," says Producer Irving Elman. "A Stirling Silliphant really isn't in the position of a television writer...
Walrath to the Senate Commerce Com mittee: "This is not a task we would have asked you to give us, but I think we are qualified. We have the staff, the procedures for handling parallel matters; this is not foreign to our experience. We are prepared to give it the priority that is called for." But the ICC also has long had a reputation for painfully slow motion...
Some of the works display the influence of African and Asian art, and some seem to combine the thick, blunt lines of Gothic woodcuts with the vi brant tendrils of art nouveau. Com pared to the primitive force of some expressionists, Heckel's forms have been described as "lyrical and refined." But taken alone, their chief characteristic is a searing fury-a world of distorted faces and figures as throbbing as Van Gogh's and as pain-racked as Munch...
...slept less than 100 ft. away. He reports restfully that they never snore. But wide awake they are far from silent. Sometimes they purr like large contented cats, and for special occasions they make a great variety of noises: grunts, grumbles, barks, yips, whines, hoots and roars, and com plicated sounds that the adventurous zoologist describes...