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...stand at Cu Chi was a model of lionheartedness compared with what the NVA columns entering Saigon proper found on April 30. The South Vietnamese soldiers confronting them did not just flee; they threw away everything that could identify them as soldiers and tried to melt into the general population. Bui Tin, an NVA colonel and journalist, says he spent that last morning "with one of our units taking a fortress that had been held by a South Vietnamese division. All the South Vietnamese soldiers who had fled had abandoned their uniforms. Everywhere you looked on the road, they...
...army had poured more than 1,000 troops into the area, and they were fighting a running battle with some 200 rebels 15 mi. west of Ipil. The troops attacked with artillery and helicopter gunships, and the guerrillas returned the fire, forcing some 7,000 people to flee for their safety. Army officers said the rebels were trying to link up with reinforcements from an mnlf camp at Siocon, in the adjoining province. The Abu Sayyaf had forced civilians to bury at least 14 of their dead fighters. The toll on the other side: five hostages and three soldiers...
...enlisted in the British army in World War I and was taken prisoner on the Marne. The horrors of the trenches made him want to flee Europe altogether. In prison camp, he found books on Eastern civilization by Ernest Fenollosa and Lafcadio Hearn; at war's end, he enrolled at the Slade School in London and took classes in Japanese and Mandarin. In 1929, penniless, he managed to reach Shanghai. For the next few years he was able to study Chinese art and writing at first hand, painting landscapes and street scenes (none of which survive), getting...
...starkness of the emotions in these silent scenes, however, is a definite contrast with the generally weak characterizations. Zappia makes Flee as awful as she is intended to be; unfortunately, this robs her of the gravity needed to pull off her more serious lines. What should be the play's biggest emotional shock, Flee's discovery of the photographs, is marred by the seeming banality of her anger...
Jarred's character is more problematic because it is potentially more complex. He is cast as the artist to Flee's pop-culture consumer, but as played by Heath the character vacillates between dignity, ironic detachmet and mere roguishness. If Jarred had more emotional depth throughout, his gradual alienation and his photographic rape of Flee would have been all the more terrifying. This interpretation can be glimpsed only at times, and it is undermined by the decision to give Jarred a visually distracting spiked dog-collar, suggesting a punk persona that is not (and should not be) reflected...