Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign. U.S. defections, Thao proclaimed, would be encouraged by a just-issued V.C. "order of the day." The five-point order instructed the Viet Cong not to attack G.I. units that refrained from hostile action. G.I.s desiring to slip over to the other side would need only to flash some antiwar literature to secure safe conduct into V.C. territory. Defectors would be assured help in getting to a neutral country-or home to the U.S. if they wanted. But those who would stay and fight with the Viet Cong would find themselves in line for unspecified "appropriate rewards...
That's the theory, anyway. As Thompson unintentionally shows, the trick works best when the viewer is so sensitized (worried, infuriated, charmed) by what he sees that a flash of understanding takes place, a kind of epiphany. Setting out on a jagged perambulation of our cultural landscape, Thompson finds little revelation in Los Angeles, a prime gap candidate if there ever was one. Big Sur's Esalen Institute, another potentially numinous spot, does not produce much cosmic insight either. But it does offer some memorable scenes, particularly a moment when Joan Baez disrupts a "Future of Consciousness" seminar...
Died. Sherman Mills Fairchild, 74, inventor and industrialist; in Manhattan. A college dropout (Harvard, University of Arizona, Columbia), Fairchild turned a knack for tinkering into an aviation and photographic empire. While at Harvard he invented a primitive flash camera; by 1918 he had developed one of the first between-the-lens shutters for aerial cameras. The need for an aircraft to use his cameras for aerial mapping led him into plane building, and in 1926 the fledgling Fairchild Aviation Corp. introduced the first enclosed-cabin monoplane. During World War II, Fairchild turned out thousands of PT-19 trainers and developed...
Bertolucci breaks up the chronological flow of the narrative, preferring to let images and scenes occur to the audience more or less as they do to Marcello. A flash forward near the film's end puts Marcello in the last night of Mussolini's regime, wandering the streets in confusion. He overhears two homosexuals flirting and turns to confront the chauffeur he thought he had murdered. But the only thing Marcello had really murdered was an accurate memory of the incident. There was no killing. The last scene finds him confronting his nature for the first time...
After a hundred or more vain searches in my first year as a policeman (I made my share of arrests, but none on flash lookouts), I ran into two Marines last month who had just been robbed, and began to question them. They eventually came up with a mediocre description of two of the subjects who had robbed them, and a first-rate description of the third. So I went off with another officer who, like myself, was riding a motor scooter, and cruised the area. And about fifteen minutes later, after searching up and down several likely streets...