Word: edition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slogging through jungles for weeks on end with Special Forces troops, invariably attired in a French Foreign Legion camouflage suit complete with flowing scarf. He also shot 10,000 ft. of film for a documentary on the war, shipped it to his home in Paris, and twice left to edit it between combat assignments. Recalls a friend: "He said that his documentary never would be finished until he had pictures of the other side...
...have something nice and cinematic to look at as long as you're working; therefore cameramen are drawn to certain types of shots. Unfortunately, from the look of Woodstock , everyone was drawn to the same simple events. No one bothered to film the stuff that one needs to edit a good sequence. For instance to return to the Who, Roger Daltry wore his shimmering white fringe vest, a natural attraction to a cameraman; so everybody must have filmed him in close-up, because they liked the way the light played on that vest and his blonde hair...
...edit it either. The lead article, a muddled dissection of CIA, FBI and CBS involvement in an abortive 1967 invasion of Haiti (currently under secret investigation by a House committee), raises more questions than it answers. More persuasively, a Viet Nam veteran recounts several killings that grimly resemble My Lai. Brutality of another kind is the subject of a strong article on the "Woodstock West" folk concert held last December at Altamont race track in California. Why, Scanlan's wonders, was there not more attention paid to the fact that four people died, 700 were treated for bad acid...
...Confederacy: it has not only accept ed the inevitable and desegregated its schools, but has actually gone out of its way to make integration work. "If it will work anywhere, it will work here," says Norman A. Mott Jr., the third in his family line to edit the weekly Yazoo City Her ald. "Lord knows we've tried hard...