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...Tons. The Soviets have agreed to rebuild Phonesavang on the Plain of Jars. Phonesavang, once considered a strategic village, was destroyed by U.S. Air Force bombing raids. Just as U.S. pilots and planes used to ferry non-Communist troops and officials to trouble spots around the country. Soviet pilots and planes now transport the Pathet Lao. The Russians currently have about 500 to 800 diplomats and technical experts in Laos, and reinforcements are arriving every month...
...characters who orbit around his highfalutin heroine regularly upstage her. In the book's best scene, for example, a jealous and not-too-bright husband tries to find his wife at the J-Bar Korral by driving through it in a truck. Aurora's plain, long-suffering daughter is as poignant as her mother is flashy, and her grim fate at the novel's end seems out of keeping with all the earlier slapstick. Yet McMurtry's skill and compassion all but hide his incongruities...
...plain unpleasant and wrong, and inappropriate for us to continue into the rest of the year in such chaos when one considers how dear the accomodations are in the first place," the letter said...
...then there is Frogs (1972). The filmers interviewed froggers, French-fried-frog-leg chefs, frog-formaldehyders, and frog-jewelry freaks. There are lots of neat warty shots, all culminating in the Calaveras County California frog-jumping contest. Owners and managers and trainers and just plain rowdies stomp up and down on the platform trying to scare their amphibians into leaping. The film ends with the soaring elongation of frogs flying for the edge of the platform. Realism gets its ya-ya's out when one bounces off the camera...
...there's something more to this book than plain old American voyeurism, although that's a large part of its attraction. The Kinsey Report it's not but it isn't just People magazine, either. Losing one's virginity is seldom either a pleasurable experience or a significant demarcation line, but it usually is one of the most important events in a person's life. The people who talk about themselves--and they are, in most cases, intrinsically pretty interesting--but also about relations between the sexes in general. Even making allowances for the unrepresentative nature of the sample...