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...film by the same name, which has played for two weeks in Boston, follows the group as they island-hop all over an illustrated map, bouncing through satiric routines on the bungling authority that got us involved in Vietnam. Sutherland reports a battle with the Viet Cong as if it were a traditional football game ("They are the home team, you know"); four women members of the troupe do a song-and-dance about their liberation from service to the military men; folksinger Len Chandler leads the audience of servicemen and women in a handclapping rendition...
Honor Tracy has made this comic territory so much her own that it no longer bears much resemblance to the Ireland on the map or in the daily headlines. Evening lacks the satiric bite of her earlier Irish novels, yet still provides diverting summer reading. But that creaking sound the reader notices may not be the hammock. It may be the plot...
...keep or borrow a portion of their Punic and Roman finds. "With scientific digging," declares UNESCO's Fradier, "Carthage can be completely restored in 15 to 20 years. So far as tourists are concerned, in two or three years we'll have put Carthage back on the map...
...Congress responded to the reverberation of tramping feet by designating the Pacific and Appalachian trails as the first of 16 possible National Scenic Trails (see map). As yet, these are the only ones that are marked and maintained for public use, but when the system is complete it will be possible to follow the route of Lewis and Clark across the Rockies or hike for 825 miles past Civil War and Revolutionary battle sites near the Potomac. Hardy footsloggers may also be able to trudge the length of the Chisholm Trail-one of the three main cattle routes...
...filmmakers make this difficult to believe. Michael Legrand's score comes on like Muzak's version of the Exodus theme, matching the subtlety of Lehman's own technique. Lehman rivals that other Catskill whizkid, Otto Preminger, and gives us so many establishing shots that he all but draws a map for us. If I little more optimistic about TV situation drama, I'd say that this movie was made...