Word: fon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some critics of the film. Partly the difficulty lies in trying to extrapolate a general statement of American performance in Viet Nam from the in dividual American stories that Cimino presents. The director, now working in Montana on a new film about the immigrant voyages west, speaks bitterly of Fon da's charges about his film. His characters, says Cimino, "are trying to support each other. They are not endorsing any thing except their common humanity -their common frailty, their need for each other." Although it may be reading the film too much as allegory, the ending, with...
...another conservative leader. Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, called Teng's lobbying "generally effective." Senator Ted Kennedy declared that the Vice Premier had made a "hell of an impression." Said Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York: "He didn't commit himself down the line fon Taiwan], but he said enough so that our normalization can go ahead...
...royal palace and smuggled out of the kingdom. According to the New York Times, the statue was mysteriously spirited away by thieves using a highly organized system of logistics that included Land Rovers, trucks and airplanes. When he realized his loss, Law Aw, the King (also called the Fon) of Kom was thought to be "psychologically killed," and soon died...
...Fon, Bobe-Meya, had a new Afo-A-Kom carved and displayed, as is customary, with female figures representing his wife and mother. But the new sculpture was no substitute for the old. According to Sandra Blakeslee, a former Times reporter living in western Africa: "There has been no peace in the kingdom since the statue was taken...