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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main reason for the Communists' stronger military position in South Viet Nam is the fact that in recent months they have been receiving more powerful weapons in vastly increased numbers. Instead of the old-fashioned rifles and homemade mortars of a few years ago, the Communists-both Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars-are now equipped with increasingly sophisticated and effective weapons, particularly long-range rockets. Their introduction has drastically changed the strategic situation and presented the U.S. and the South Vietnamese with a new and troublesome factor...
...first comes the doorman, a 300-lb. bearded ex-bouncer who checks membership cards. Next there is a one-story trip up in a leather-padded freight elevator; then out into the enormous main Factory loft, with its 30-ft.-high steel-trussed ceiling, 54-ft.-long bar, sea of dining tables and minuscule dance floor. Out back is another barroom, with four pool tables (the one covered in red felt is for ladies), barber chairs and church pews for the onlookers and oldtime coin machines to play while waiting. The men's-room graffiti are considered so choice...
...hang our hats. The Factory has turned out to be a big hatstand with lots of hats; but before we started it, outside of discotheques, there was really no place to go that served good food and stayed open late." As he sees it, The Factory's main achievement has been "melding the dinner jackets and the blue jeans. You dig? No one is embarrassed; nobody cares." Brightening the ambiance no end is the fact that some of Hollywood's prettiest girls (who need not be members) show up in the briefest dresses, and dance the wildest steps...
...main impression, however, is one of noise-loud, blasting, unrelenting rock 'n' roll from the Gordian Knot, The Factory's regular weekday band-and familiar faces. Any night the whirling dervishes can include Roz Russell, Barbra Streisand, Sonny and Cher, Dress Designer Jimmy Galanos, Financier Bart Lytton, and Fullback-turned-Actor Jim Brown, who tells friends he feels at home at The Facto ry, proves it by rarely missing an evening. As for The Factory's founders, they have their own soundproof inner sanctum-soon to be opened to the membership at large-which...
...WOULD suggest that Widerberg completely missed the point of the fable. He touched on it once or twice, but, in the main, he missed it. Elvira Madigan is not a story about two lovers who reject society and then die for their own love. It is a story of two lovers, loving ideally in a perfect setting, who find that their kind of love--the butterflies and the daisies and the wine and cheese--is not enough...