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...descended on a group of children playing in a park in Niteroi, across the bay from Rio. Firemen had to fight them 1 with flamethrowers. In another city a police dog diverted a swarm attacking his eight-year-old master, saving the boy but dying of multiple stings a half-hour later...
Burton gets little chance to display his acting. Instead of watching the deterioration of a gentleman and a scholar, we are treated to a tedious string of ghouls and black magic, hot and voluptuous women--all of which loses any excitement after the first half-hour...
...series' twelve half-hour episodes, Love in a Sexy Society, focuses on a discussion of premarital sex by four coeds at Northwestern University. "Everybody's sleeping around," says one. "If it goes on in the adult world, what's wrong with us doing it?" The case for chastity is made by another girl, who says of her relationship with her boy friend: "I've got him on a pedestal, and he's got me on a pedestal. It's kind of hard to jump into bed when you're on separate pedestals...
Except for Hué, the most serious city fighting was in Saigon. Once a gracious, languid island in the midst of war, Saigon last week was a city rimmed by fear. Every half-hour the radio grimly warned: "The Saigon-Cholon area is not considered secure. Firefights and sniper fire are expected to continue. Do not travel on foot. All vehicles must have an armed escort." Flak-jacketed American MPs, weapons at the ready, roared along the tree-shaded boulevards. Trigger-happy police fired frantically in the air to halt vehicles approaching checkpoints and barricades strung about the city. Tough...
...rest of the evening included a static sports roundup (a ten-minute speech by an athletic functionary, scenes of a factory woman doing calisthenics), a performance of Chekhov's Platonov's Loves, Thirty Minutes with the Hungarian Railway Philharmonic, and a half-hour newscast, with headlines read by a tight-lipped blonde. As with the rest of East European television, Hungary's news presentation carries virtually no film footage, nor even voice reports from foreign correspondents. The lead item usually updates what the satellite networks call America's "dirty aggressive war against the brave, peace-loving...