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Home Again. One of the few telling and truthful moments in the film occurs during a press conference in Port Arthur, Texas, the home town Joplin despised and always tried to conquer. On this occasion, Joplin had returned for her tenth high school reunion ("They laughed me out of the state," she announced on a Dick Cavett show, "and now I'm goin' back"). The questions the local press cooked up were trite-was Janis happy in school? Did she get in vited to the prom? But her answers, out of the direct pressures of the circumstances, were...
...place." Equally important, the offensive against Phuoc Long was an indication of an ominous change in the Communists' overall strategy in South Viet Nam. Since the Paris Accords, the Communists have concentrated on building up their hold on rural areas; now they seem ready to attack and conquer key administrative centers and major towns. Their apparent goal is to erode the political base of President Nguyen Van Thieu's Saigon government, forcing it eventually to resign or enter a coalition with the Provisional Revolutionary Government...
...nothing but "a highly planned cooperative effort of theft," rationalized by "the predator posing as hero." Cultures that live by the sword alone "can only feed on the labors of other men." They inevitably die, often because they are absorbed by the gentler, more intelligent civilizations they came to conquer...
...where everything worked against it, and the new lives of the reawakened partners seem no more fulfilling. But if Marianne and Johan have even a slightly better idea of what went wrong, they may pass on that little bit of wisdom--speeding the apocalyptic day when love won't conquer anyone but will make peace with all, in an age of sense and reason and sexual equality. But it's not even clear that the pair has gone anywhere at all. Any real hope we find in this film comes from ourselves, or perhaps from the little bit of illumination...
...himself" and says, "God is now throwing Christianity away and is now establishing a new religion, and this new religion is Unification Church ... We have only one way." Other in-group speeches have proclaimed, "I am your brain" and "The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world...