Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most-touted-new-director of the age, Nichols repeatedly demonstrates that this is his first picture. Even his genius for fast-paced stage comedy (Luv, The Odd Couple, and Barefoot in the Park) can't be found in Virginia Woolf; possibly it got lost in poor attempts at fancy camerawork and cutting...
...best measure of the promise of the new pacification effort is that the Viet Cong is worried-and reacting. In the village of Binh Nghia, the team from Vung Tau got off to a fast start thanks largely to the support of Police Chief Nguyen Van Lam, 35. After the villagers, many with blood ties to Viet Cong guerrillas, held a meeting in which they enthusiastically burned a Viet Cong and a North Viet Nam flag and pledged allegiance to the Saigon government, the Viet Cong machine-gunned Police Chief Lam as he sat at tea. In Binh Dinh province...
Asians are villagers, and the village always bowed before the procession of imperial powers as before natural forces -taxed, conscripted, pillaged but holding fast to the status quo by totem and taboo. Karl Marx sneered at "these idyllic village communities" as stagnant and "subjugating man to external circumstances...
These sales add up to only one symptom of a profound change that has overtaken the world's food supply. With the earth's population growing twice as fast as food production, North America and Australia have become the bread basket for more than half the world. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that per capita food output will actually decline 2% this year and that more than 3,000,000 people will die of malnutrition. This problem has created challenges and opportunities for companies with the talent to help end hunger...
...midst of a down-and-dirty poker session provokes comic agony. Among the bystanders swept a'ong to the payoff, Paul Ford as the town banker and Burgess Meredith as a high-living frontier doctor help to point up the very evident pleasures of gambling, hard liquor and fast company...