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Author Palmer, 27, occasionally reveals his lack of experience. He does not always establish the point from which the action is to be viewed. It is unlikely, for example, that a passenger in a helicopter could perceive that a fence, far below, was strung at the top with concertina wire. Palmer also has a habit of interrupting characters' reveries and providing information that they do not know, a tic that needlessly diverts attention from the puppets to the puppeteer. But he successfully keeps a large cast of vivid actors breathlessly on the move. Better still, he offers an entertainment...
...Ulrich, 18, her sister Lynn Marie, 16, and cousin Donna Ulrich, 18, to volleyball practice in Goshen, Ind., on Aug. 10,1978. As they were headed north on five-lane U.S. Route 33, their car was struck from behind by a 1972 Chevrolet van. The Pinto collapsed like a concertina; its fuel tank ruptured, and the car burst into flames. Lynn Marie and Donna died in the wreck; Judy Ann, who had been driving, was pulled out alive but died within hours at a hospital. Unknown to the girls, Ford had two months earlier decided to recall Pintos manufactured from...
Crosby's biggest critical success was Country Girl, but his personal favorite among his movies was High Society (1956). It found him singing and dancing with Frank Sinatra at an "elegant swellegant" party and playing a concertina and crooning True Love, as only the first crooner could croon, to not-yet-royal Grace Kelly. Unlike many stars, Crosby surrounded himself with other big talents. He worked with Fred Astaire in Holiday Inn (in which he sang White Christmas), with Ethel Barrymore in Just for You and with Ingrid Bergman in Bells of St. Mary...
...block off the main square, whose principal commercial life revolves around ten seedy-looking pubs, is a British army post housing some 110 Royal Fusiliers. The compound is known locally as the Alamo, and for good reason: it is ringed by two-story-high corrugated steel walls, topped by concertina wire and strung over with camouflage netting...
...military target and a political target. Saigon is a political target. Their goal of a 'third Viet Nam' [a separate Communist state in the South] is very real." Although his sector is seemingly quiet, the war is real here too. Noting the endless rolls of concertina wire surrounding the Trung Ngan bunker, I ask: "General, what are you going to do with all that barbed wire when the war is over?" Nghi smiles thinly. "You tell me when the war will be over and I'll tell you what we'll do with the barbed wire...