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...Thanh, 40, once a prosperous marketing manager for a paper and sugar distributing company in Viet Nam, fought back the tears as he noted that his current net worth is $4. "You know," he said in broken English as he fingered his worn trousers, "when I go, I forgot to put on my good clothes." Then he mused: "I believe I have a good future here. I think the Americans in the end are good people. I think. I hope...
...withdrawal of U.S. forces two years ago. The Americans had helped South Viet Nam create an army that the Vietnamese could not maintain without considerable advisory assistance and steady, sizable infusions of equipment. When U.S. support was removed, it was not long before many ARVN soldiers simply forgot what they had learned under American tutelage. "Our G.I.s were always telling us not to bunch up, not to bunch up," laughed a South Vietnamese soldier near Xuan Loc last week. "That's all I remember-'don't bunch up.'" Moreover, the Paris accords gave the North Vietnamese...
...relaxed young man with a tremendous grin...he is a warm, natural guy and should get along well here...he's a hard worker who has done reasonably well through hustle and determination...I think we would be crazy to pass him by and, by the way, I almost forgot, he's a Harvard son." The candidate was admitted...
This is exactly the point, of course. Movies like The Land That Time Forgot are made in proud defiance of rationality, but require both technical facility and a little wit. Director Kevin Connor and his collaborators have all these qualities, and apply them with high spirits...
...third opera, Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City), was staged at New York's Metropolitan Opera. In the leading role of Marietta was Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her Met debut. The American public took to Jeritza but not to Korngold, and after a few years it forgot him as a serious composer...