Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French-Viet Minh war then?the level of U.S. participation in the conflict is going down, not up. So is the draft call, which is dropping more than 3,000 in July to the lowest monthly figure so far this year. Richard Nixon's approach may fail. The effect on the Paris negotiations may be nil (see following story). The North Vietnamese could choose to increase rather than reduce their military effort. Despite these caveats, it is also possible that Nixon's tactics could start a downward trend on the violence scale...
...strenuously imaginative production some experiments must fail. Director Kahn has the leaders of France actually speak French while a man and a woman translate into microphones and loudspeakers simultaneously, in U.N. fashion. The effect is clever but distracting. On the other hand, a sense of the seeming invulnerability of the French forces is aptly conveyed by having them outfitted like hockey goalies. Initially, this creates the illusion of invincible force, but later it is revealed as the symbol of futile totalitarianism...
...director like John Ford, if he thought this tedious two-hour tale worth the telling, could have done it in a tight ninety minutes. Leone spends most of his time focusing on the actors' eyes squinting tensely into the camera lens. The intent is operatic, but the effect is soporific. Stuck in this gluepot horse opera, such veteran range hands as Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale and Keenan Wynn struggle helplessly and often hysterically. But the picture, such as it is, belongs to Charles Bronson. A flinty character actor who has appeared in everything from The Great Escape...
...William Morris would have been in rejuvenating Victorian England by establishing a Utopian handicraft community on the banks of the river Wandie. No matter. Despite her mistakes, Jane Jacobs, operating as curmudgeon and gadfly, had taken grandiose assumptions of city planning and stood them on their ears with invigorating effect...
...literature and electronics, the Japanese urge to modernize has had much the same effect. Japanese novelists often study Western models as faithfully and earnestly as their engineering brothers ingest technical manuals. The result is that too often the final product resembles nothing so much as a dubbed-in Oriental film. Occasionally, though, a novelist, borne along on his own exquisite and honorable psychological insight, transforms a Western genre into a vehicle for approaching a universal truth...