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...tropical Viet Nam. They were warned to expect terrorist attacks, told never to travel at night for fear of ambush, and informed about the standoffish peasants' social and religious taboos. The most arduous aspect of the course was learning the language from three Vietnamese instructors (heo is pig, bap is corn, ga is chicken, and farmer is a tongue-twisting nguoi lam ruong). Kiddingly, the agents asked their Vietnamese teachers how to say "I surrender"-and were haughtily ignored by the tough former army men. After 450 hours of study, the volunteers feel they have barely grasped the hang...
...curdle the hollandaise, lump the simple white sauce, hack away at that suckling pig . . . we'll take Julia and her savory shortcomings...
...pudgy, middle-aged chap (Rudolf Hrušinski) who works as an inspector for a chain of grocery stores and looks like a small grey pig wearing spectacles. Humiliated by his appearance, he assumes a mask of in difference that puts off the people he works with and drives his wife (Ann Todd) to drink. Inevitably, the morbid love-hate of women that is hidden in the inspector's heart bursts out in an ambiguous compulsion to punish and to prowl...
Shock knocks the scales off the in spector's eyes, and for one terrible instant he sees that he looks like a pig because he is a pig. For one terrible instant he stands ready to pay for the girl's life by taking his own. Next day, still looking like a small grey pig, the inspector is back on the job, back on the prowl. Character is fate...
Once in a long time she gets stymied. Her suckling-pig program is a famous example. First she explained the extraordinary preparations she had gone through: cleaning its ears and nostrils, shaving its snout, even brushing its teeth. Each step, using three pigs with two in reserve, went smoothly. Then came the time to carve. Using an electric knife-"It certainly sounds like a dentist, doesn't it?"-all went well until she reached the rlbs. They would not yield. She attacked with a huge chef's knife. Still no luck. Finally she put down the knife, rested...