Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sadistic sergeant, is equipped with a movable scar - not unlike Feldman's shifty hump in Frankenstein - and the director has given Ustinov and his horse matching peg legs. But the whole pro ject soon begins to deflate under the hot sun. Maybe the canvas - all those broad desert expanses and empty skies - is just too big to fill up with gags, or maybe the nostalgic pull of earlier Beau Gestes remains too strong, even at this late date, to succumb to a jokester's darts. There is a great deal of falling about in the last half...
From Khartoum, Photographer David Burnett and I booked ourselves aboard a red and yellow bus that makes the daylong journey to Kassala, a Sudanese town that lies near the Eritrean border. For twelve hours, the bus hurtled through the open desert, crashing across giant potholes; the thermometer was constant-between...
This stern injunction was enunciated by the Prophet Muhammad some 1,300 years ago to his followers in a primitive desert society. Now, after centuries of being superseded by Western law, the exacting code of the Koran is once more gaining strength and support in a number of countries...
...returns from suicidal fantasy to a precarious willingness to give life another try. It is a success story, but a measured, qualified one (the title line is the psychiatrist's reply when Deborah complains that reality is painful and difficult compared with the security of the imaginary desert gods who rule her sick mind). The same thing can be said of the movie: it leaves one feeling respectful but not deeply impressed or moved...
...topless shoeshine. Rock songs advertised the state (Fun, Fun, Fun) and its people (Eight Miles High). Thousands of teen-agers headed west and were hailed by older Californians seeking a formula for perpetual youth. Together they began an inner-directed search for a separate reality. Some trekked into the desert looking for Castaneda's ephemeral brujo, Don Juan. Others sought to gain an identity through encounters in the Esalen Institute's steamy communal baths...