Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alpha 4, the other base turned over to ARVN last week, is only three miles from the southern edge of the DMZ. Better known as Con Thien-the name that was still lettered on its tactical operations center when the 300-man G.I. garrison pulled out last week-it is a small triangle of dusty hillocks that long ago earned a pivotal niche in the history of the war. In 1967, the North Vietnamese put such relentless pressure on Con Thien and inflicted so many casualties that the American public's confidence in its government's management...
...furor El Topo is neither a cathartic masterpiece, as its disciples believe, nor a con job, and Jodorowsky is neither messiah nor mountebank. There are scenes of brilliance in El Topo, followed by sequences of unwieldy pretension. The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple...
...lament: "How ill white hairs become a fool." In the midst of unabashed gaiety, Fellini ushers in bitterness: an Italian lion tamer who trains his beasts in German because "it is the only human language that they understand." The film's zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque who maligns the deceased (suffocated by an ostrich egg at the tender age of 200) as vile and worthless...
...made tedious by its subject's now fairly conventional opinions-but when the reporting breaks forth it does so with an energy that approximates the frenzy of good, crazy fiction. "Groovy" Hutchinson, the drifter who was murdered alongside Linda Fitzptarick, comes on like a Ken Kesey hero, a con artist who ultimately can't scramble back into the society that has maimed him. Jerry Rubin appears in a whole series of guises-from young Jimmy Olsen-type reporter to revolutionary vaudevillian. And, in what is possibly the best piece of the lot, Lukas follows young Watts poet Johnny Scott into...
John W. Black, manager of the Saks University Shop, expressed little con-cern yesterday over the issues raised by NECBGS or the planned boycott of his store. "To be sure, the people in the minority classes can push a wheelbarrow and move trash, but that doesn't mean they can fill skilled jobs," Black said. He doubted that his customers, mostly college students, would respect the picket lines...