Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saigon troops resettled Rhade tribesmen in small houses after taking their land for military purposes or for refugees from the North, they found that the Rhade slipped away, back to longhouses where there were neighbors to talk to.) Y Blo, the sorcerer, tries to keep the spirits friendly. Grandmother Pan, who divides up village land for cultivation though political leadership is in male hands, still helps out when there's a difficult birth. Y Gar, the hunter, hits monkeys and boar and barking deer almost as often as he misses, so expert is he at reading the hidden significance...
...spit, and maybe even give him a coin." Fighter Kim, tortured by Americans determined to find out who blew up their friends the week before, strangles a companion whose capacity for resistance he doubts, slits his own wrists and lies down quietly to die. And Grandmother Pan survives the catastrophe to rummage among the rubble for her husband's legs. Maybe in certain circumstances just to survive is heroic--though if that's so, maybe heroism isn't worthwhile...
...biggest U.S. international airlines, Pan American and TWA, have not been flying quite so high as their domestic counterparts. Fuel costs have risen far faster outside the U.S. than at home, and the two American flag carriers are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with government-subsidized foreign airlines. Last week Pan Am, which lost $7.6 million in January alone, asked the CAB for permission to discuss combining a number of its routes with TWA, which lost $21 million in January. The request raises antitrust complications and will have to be cleared by the Justice Department. If approved, the partial...
...more vapid excuse for a mass circulation magazine would be difficult to imagine. Americans supposedly have an unmet need for heroes. The astronauts did not pan out; the current president has turned out to be a criminal; Vietnam produced only careerists. People zeroes in on celebrities, not on generals and space cadets. And it tries to manufacture celebrities...
...Brecht's less worthwhile plays. Its chief value probably lies in its encouragement to young playwrights who feel awed by Brecht's maturity. A sort of Two Gentlemen of Verona for Marxists, or something. 369, a new Cambridge company, gives it a better production than it deserves. A pan that is probably too kind probably appears on page two. 369 Center, off Washington Street near Union Square...