Word: huts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombing stirred mixed hut predominantly critical reactions in the U.S. and round the world. Most of America's European allies were officially silent. The themes of world, reaction ranged from outrage, to a more moderate sadness, to a kind of unenthusiastic sympathy for the President's implacable line. Only on Taiwan and in Saigon were the raids greeted with almost unmitigated satisfaction. Then, with the bombing halt, came expressions of relief and hope mixed with recrimination. A sampling of reactions...
...edge of Calcutta. Eighteen months ago, the flat was jammed with thousands of Bangladesh refugees. Last week between 30,000 and 40,000 party regulars met in a $700,000 tent city as princely as a Mogul encampment. Party Leader Indira Gandhi was housed in an elegant $107,000 "hut," which aides hastened to explain would serve as a guest house for a housing project to be built on the site. Nonetheless, New Delhi newsmen were stunned by its magnificence and reported that it had two gates: "One for Mrs. Gandhi and the other for the plebeians desiring...
Smoke. Yet as Saigon's intelligentsia anticipates a cease-fire as all but inevitable, South Vietnamese peasants were not so sure that the years of fighting would ever end. In a hamlet in Binh Duong province, a middle-aged woman sat in front of a hut that had sheltered her family until North Vietnamese soldiers dug bunkers near by and South Vietnamese airplanes bombed the enemy-and her house. "Peace? A ceasefire? Look at our house. This is peace?" she scoffed. Predicted a farmer about both sides: "They will just keep fighting and fighting, while the people stay...
...kind of army recruiting poster turned on its head. Galy Gay (Mace Rosenstein), a man who just can't say no to anything, leaves his hut to buy a fish and gets sidetracked for life. He runs into a trio of British privates, who act like manic Boy Scouts with switchblades hidden in their pockets (in fact, a butter knife serves). They develop great career plans for him when a buddy of theirs disappears during a group burglary. Galy's not much of a soldier, but what's the difference, one man's like the next and all are adaptable...
...certainly the best in the Boston area, and probably better than any west of California. If your tastebuds are more accustomed to Western flavors, try Osaka's very fine teppanyaki or sukiyaki. Matsuya (1768a Mass Ave) is not quite as good, but also serves Korean dishes. The Tempura Hut (444 Portland St.) has adequate sukiyaki and caters much more to a Western clientele than do Osaka or Matsuya...