Word: huts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From there, he will fly to Bogota, Colombia, ride on buses and trucks to LaPaz, set up housekeeping in a small hut in a rural village and look...
...first part of the film, both men are marooned on a vast frozen lake. Dersu saves them from freezing by building a hut cut of dry grass, deploying some tools of civilization (rifles, a surveying instrument) as the frame for the shelter. It is the Captain, however, who later pulls Dersu out of a rushing river by constructing a rescue device from a felled tree and a couple of leather belts. The scene is both exciting and funny: Dersu, clinging to a rock in the water, has to shout instructions to the Captain...
...Millard wanted to work first on a simple, unilateral case. As a boy in North Carolina, he had been a rodeo fan and had learned to twirl a lariat. So during some friendly horseplay, he literally lassoed a ten-year-old Korean boy and lollipopped him into the medical hut. (His parents could not be reached for approval.) When the stitches were removed, the result was so good that the boy became a walking, talking testimonial to Millard's wondrous surgery...
...result was a kind of electronic jock itch. Schlitz spent $4.5 million to air its effective series of ads. Joe Namath huddled with an assortment of international machos, trying to give the impression that Brut deserved a seat in the United Nations. McDonald's, Burger King and Pizza Hut raised the specter of a future when the Olympic symbol would be interlocking onion rings...
Brando now spends half the year in this retreat, where life and problems are simpler. He lives in a thatch-roofed hut, shaded by tall palm trees, at the edge of a white beach. It is one large room with lift-up frond shutters that invite the gentle sea breeze. In addition to a large bed festooned with mosquito netting, the room contains a refrigerator and gas-fed stove. In the back, separated by a wall, is a flush toilet and shower. The place is comfortable but fairly primitive, very much a man's digs...