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Showtime in the Cu Chi tunnelplex was usually around 7 p.m. Thanh's projection crew would wrap up their daytime activities (foraging, digging, shooting at helicopters, etc.), descend underground and prepare for the evening's unspooling. Shortly thereafter, the audience, bubbling with anticipation, would arrive through the various connecting tunnels. On movie night, the entire population of a small hamlet would simply vanish underground. Up to 100 guerrillas and their families would cram into the dank screening chamber, taking pains not to sit on any poisonous vipers. (The moviegoers would try to ignore the rats, which were tolerated...
...even a glimpse of the bad-guys-of-the-moment, Russian criminals who have emerged, fire-toughened, from the ashes of the Soviet Union. The movie, as many have observed, even borrows the sure-fire elements of "Mission: Impossible": infiltration of a supposedly impregnable government sanctum, corrupt government execs etc...
Research usually entails pulling together information about a guest for that day, using recent newspaper and magazine articles, books etc. to compose a 4-5 page synopsis of who they are, why they are coming on and what questions "C.R." (as he is known by his very young 10-person staff) might want to ask them...
...ills; and President Clinton, with his vaunted political instincts, adopted the most salient elements of the panacea. Now the Democrats are trying to further counter the Republicans with their plan, which they call Families First. Moreover, by declaring wars on poverty, drugs, three strikes and you are out slogans etc., by putting 100,000 more police officers on the street, the president as well as his adversaries are hoping to address America's social ills. The problem is that in the long run, as we have thus far witnessed, any plan that does not engage the community is bound...
...ethnic studies should be strengthened insofar as its goal is to change the racist attitudes that have prevented non-white minorities from enjoying equity in our society, but not to the extent that a paradigm shift is sought. While this pursuit definitely requires the study of immigrant cultures, literature, etc., it does so as a means to an end. That end is a uniquely American culture which is not a bland homogenization but rather a synergistic whole that is greater than the sum of its ethnic components. In other words, the contemporary experiences of non-white minorities should be looked...