Word: pois
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jokes: while he shows us dozens of pieces, old and new, of the Antoine puzzle, he does not fit them together to form a fresh and exciting self-portrait. Some of the clips are brought into fascinating juxtaposition (or so Truffaut fans will find), but others are far less poi gnant in this film than they were in their original contexts. The result is unsatisfy ing and a bit dispiriting. Though Antoine Doinel maintains the headstrong velocity of youth, Francois Truffaut is beginning to show some signs of sedentary middle...
...their island-English versions, to wit: The Twelve Days of Christmas, in which "my tutu [grannie] give to me one mynah bird in one papaya tree, two coconut, three dried squid, four flower lei, five fat pig, six hula lesson, seven shrimp as wimming, eight ukulele, nine pound of poi, ten can of beer, eleven missionary and twelve television...
...this exquisite setting, the company's excellent veteran musical director Julius Rudel last week introduced an offbeat operatic double bill consisting of Antonio Salieri's Prima la Musica e Poi le Parole (First the Music and Then the Words) and Mozart's The Impresario. Since both works deal with backstage intrigue, and both had their premieres together in 1786 on commission from Austria's enlightened Emperor Joseph II, the two one-acters would seem made for each other...
...point of fact," confide the knowing Dake and Decherd, "it is the drink which President Nixon shared with Chou En-Lai in Peking last February." They should have added that Pat Nixon wore a hula skirt while Mrs. Mao Tse-tung dished out poi at the Peking People's Luau...
That time may be rapidly approaching. At Poi Meau, a scant 28 miles from the Cambodian capital, government troops clashed with an estimated 300 Viet Cong guerrillas. Farther east, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, intent on protecting their sanctuaries and supply lines, fought pitched battles with Cambodian regulars. In neighboring Laos and South Viet Nam, such clashes have raged for the better part of a decade-and continued to rage last week. Now Cambodia, too, is fast becoming a full-fledged participant in the Indochina conflict. "There is no need for us to declare war," said Premier...