Word: oriente
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MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS...
This windy movie is an adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's alltime best-selling chestnuts (called Murder in the Calais Coach in America). The setup is simply that a killing is committed aboard the Orient Express, snowbound in the Yugoslav countryside. The victim is a rather sour American businessman of the usual mysterious origins...
...cult flourished while he lived. Now it has been strengthened by his death. Bruce Lee, the Galahad of the Orient, died last year at age 32, having made a string of Kung Fu epics on the cheap in Hong Kong. At first, the Lee movies were intended for local consumption only. But a few found their way to the U.S., a TV series called Kung Fu caught on, and the martial-arts imports have grossed some $12 million at U.S. box offices...
Thousands of American skeptics have gone to the Orient to witness or experience first-hand a medical procedure that has been in use for more than 5000 years--more than 3000 years before Aristotle laid the groundwork for the theory of Western medicine...
...sprawling sales networks of the great Japanese trading houses to lease to manufacturers, shippers and retailers, products as varied as Pepsi bottles, tankers and computers. Now Inui is trying to repay some of his debt of gratitude to U.S.L., of which he became a director in 1973. Next month Orient will open an office in Manhattan to help U.S.L. lease products to other Japanese firms operating in the U.S. -for a fee, of course...