Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide-screen ("Totalscope") travelogue filmed two years ago in Red China by Italy's globetrotting Count Leonardo Bonzi (Green Magic, Lost Continent). At times the DeLuxe color photography by Pierludovico Pavoni and Alesandro d'Eva is magnificent. (Best scene: a mistily magical sequence in which the fishermen of the Kwei valley, winged like big birds in their bright wet coats of bark, glide out upon the morning waters on their slender rafts and dance them on the current to attract the fish.) But the film as a whole has no shape, makes only a cursory attempt to describe...
...faraway cities, some pilots spend about half of each month at home. The man who puts it to good use can make an income stretching in the heavy five figures or build an entirely new career. Says one who does: "Some pilots use their spare time to become expert fishermen. Some become low-handicap golfers. I devote my off-duty hours to making money, of which I happen to be very fond...
...sense, he stayed something of a child himself. The frequent bassi (festivals) of his capital and the boat races on the Mekong River were always irresistible, and fishermen rowing by the palace often stopped to listen to the music from the King's khen pipes. But five years ago sickness fell-first rheumatism and then a malignant tumor on the neck. Last August King Sisavang Vong finally turned his duties over to his eldest son, Crown Prince Savang Vatthana, 52. Last week 21 can non volleys thundered over Luangprabang, and the fires in the temples burned all night...
...would Oscar think of using bait ("Them's use bait, they're stink fishermen...
...Chesapeake Bay spawning grounds they had left last spring. Determined to intercept them, Oscar and fellow zealots were getting up in the middle of the night and tramping 100 miles of Vineyard beaches in the island's 14th annual Striped Bass Derby, which has drawn 1,200 fishermen from as far as California and Nova Scotia...