Word: mai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American construction crews continued repairing bridges and roads in North Vietnam. Premier Pham Van Dong spoke today at a brief ceremony marking the completion of the rebuilt Bach Mai Hospital. The joint American Vietnamese construction crew heard Premier Dong say, "The bonds of friendship between the people of Vietnam and the people of America--never severed even during the darkest hours of the past war--are strengthened once again." After the ceremony, the construction workers retired for a game of baseball. "They're great people, but they still can't hit a curve ball as good as a guy from...
Directed by MILOŠ FORMAN, KON ICHIKAWA, CLAUDE LELOUCH, JURI OZEROV, ARTHUR PENN, MICHAEL PFLEGHAR, JOHN SCHLESINGER, MAI ZETTERLING
...most abused device is ironic crosscutting. Mai Zetterling has her somber Swedish fun jumping from overmuscled weight lifters to shots of mass-food preparation in the Olympic Village. But since these athletes are not overweight, considering their specialty, her juxtaposition of images is superficial and the idea behind it banal...
...consequence, Watergate, which is close to home, has gripped students here as well as the rest of the nation while the more monstrous Nixon crimes go unnoticed. There is no Cambodian Bach Mai Hospital to which one can point as a vivid and burning reminder that that war has not ended...
...language: to the "inoperative" statements, the "counter-insurgency actions" that are actually bombings, and the "intelligence programs" that are actually programs of mass murder. (My own favorite instance was Jerry Friedheim's admission last January that there might have been some damage to "the hospital the enemy calls Bach Mai.") But not enough attention has been paid to the language liberals have used to discuss...