Word: khmers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sihanouk's son, Prince Norodom Sihamoni) who ascends the throne after his father's death and prevails over the jealous machinations of a wicked aunt. The credits? Naturally, the movie was produced, directed and written by Sihanouk, though he was not credited with the "classical and popular" Khmer musical score. There was also a third Cambodian film shown at the festival, this one a documentary short called Royal Cortege, also by Sihanouk. If the Prince had so chosen, the festival could have been an all-Sihanouk spectacular. He has made eight full-length films, six of which have...
There was something dashing about the passionately militant young Malraux, for instance. At 22, in 1923, this Malraux was arrested for trying to smuggle Khmer statuary out of Cambodia. Already an anticolonialist, he helped form those revolutionary forces that would eventually drive his countrymen out of Indo-China and make Mao Tse-tung master of China. The Malraux of the middle period had much to recommend him too. As an almost mythical liberal of the 1930s and a famous novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), he helped organize and then commanded the brave, ramshackle Republican air force...
Oriental gongs trembled as the beautiful young dancer swayed into Khmer rhythms. The bell tones of her name signify "Goddess of Flowers," and certainly Princess Bopha Devi, 25, eldest daughter of Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, looks as serene and elegant as the white frangipani blossoms that she usually scatters through her hair. Now she was wearing the 6th century headdress, valued at $200,000, that marks her position as prima ballerina in Cambodia's Royal Ballet. It is a 2,000-year-old tradition that the leading dancer be the daughter of the king-and though Sihanouk...
...ruins of the 600 temples at Angkor, the noblest remnants of Asia's past, she could almost be the private citizen she wished to be: the ordinary tourist looking, touching and marveling. It was a brief respite, however, on her tour of Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Khmer Kingdom (see color opposite). Flying from Pnompenh to the port city of Sihanoukville last week to dedicate a street named for John F. Kennedy, Jackie soon had to cope with her host's propensity for using her presence as a publicity platform to the world...
...Viet Nam on today's scale. Jackie had seen an advance copy of the speech and persuaded Sihanouk to leave the offensive paragraph out. In her reply, she said that "President Kennedy would have wished to visit Cambodia. He would have been attracted by the vitality of the Khmer people." Then she and the Prince rode down the avenue in a Lincoln convertible to Sihanouk's villa on the beach at the end of the street, where she and her party of four- Britain's Lord Harlech, New York Lawyer Michael Forrestal, Washington Journalist Charles Bartlett...