Word: potted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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China, the fallen government's only ally, is in radio contact with Pol Pot and will provide his forces with weapons and financial aid but no troops, Sihanouk added...
Deposed Premier Pol Pot, who fled the capital on Sunday, is trying to organize a line of resistance near Siem Reap in north-western Cambodia, reliable analysts reported. The rebel news agency said revolutionary forces control that area, about 320 miles northwest of Phnom Penh...
...eight-member "People's Revolutionary Council" led by Heng Samrim, a defector from the Pol Pot government, has been established, the rebel news bureau reported...
...have borrowed its sense of humor from the '40s as well, with no attempt to update it. Every old gag in the book makes its way into the film. Safes fall out of windows and just miss unsuspecting pedestrians, people keep bumping into each other, the odd-tasting pot of beef stew turns out to have a shoe in it. These tired routines would be forgivable if Friedkin didn't seem so convinced that they were original, and worthy of painstaking treatment...
This could be worth resaying if Shaw or Stoppard were in the pulpit, but despite First Reader Plummer's acute rendering of Doctorow's wry, sardonic and satiric sermon, Drinks Before Dinner is a smudge pot of a drama that never blazes into revelation...