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Sing Along with Gongs. In villages threatened by the advancing Viet Cong, Addiss and Crofut had to sing to a constantly shifting audience, a kind of music to flee by. The duo played in the imperial city of Hue and raised $1,400 for the nearly 1,000,000 homeless flood victims. In one remote mountain vil lage, their performance ended up in a woolly hootenanny with the loinclothed montagnard tribesmen chanting and playing along on gongs and flute. Faced by antagonistic students ready to argue politics, Addiss and Crofut always retreated to song. "As soon as they realized that...
...artists, The Threepenny Opera was first produced in Berlin in 1928. It depicts the chaotic existence fostered by the tottering Welmar Republic. The riots which the production provoked led to its suspension by the Nazis, and jeopardized the security of its authors, both of whom were later forced to flee Germany...
...thump of signal drums preceded Major Mike Hoare and his mercenary column as they pushed toward the village of Bafwasende. The message: 'Flee, the white giants are coming." But Hoare and his men cut through the bush to hit Bafwasende from the rear, gunned down some of the rebels before they could escape " including a Simba cap tain carrying written orders to exterminate all white hostages held there...
...rounds of parlor tag, it ends with a frenetic pursuit scene that slams the entire cast into fast cars and sends them caroming off to the airport, changing partners en route, bumping into things. All are understandably eager to get out of town, and their impulse to flee provides the film's first and only surge of audience identification...
...Eastern Europe; he had been loaded with decorations and had risen to be editor of the country's most important literary magazine and director of the State Publishing House. Then, on a cultural mission to pre-Wall Berlin in 1960, he and his wife were able to flee. They had to leave their infant daughter behind in Bucharest, and she has never been released to them...