Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifth Column. The Communists' successful application of widespread pressure has forced a painful sequence of choices and consequences on the allies. Required to use all their armies to defend the cities and the line along the DMZ, allied commanders no longer have enough manpower to move out in pursuit of Communist battalions. They are thus unable to hit at their besiegers, or even put out sufficient reconnaissance patrols to determine the size and deployment of the Communist armies arrayed around them. Nor can the U.S. and the South Vietnamese be sure how many enemy forces, the remnants...
...PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE: THE VIENNA CHOIR BOYS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Alfred Drake narrates this look at the life and training of the young Austrian choristers...
...Proposition--clearly modeled after the now-famed Chicago improvisational troupes -- strenuously avoids stooping for the easy, gag-line laughs. Trying to create original situational humor, the production occasionally sacrifices a quick laugh in pursuit of something deeper, but that's the course an improvisational group must follow to be more than a cut-rate Neil Simon show. When the sought-after originality breeds laughs, then you've got a winner, and The Proposition wins more than it loses...
...Eastwood), who turns him in for the bounty money, then springs him at the last moment by shooting the rope with which Tuco is being hanged. When Joe's aim begins to deteriorate, so does the partnership, but the two stick together long enough to set out in pursuit of $200,000 worth of stolen gold hidden in a desert cemetery. Also after the money is a thin-lipped sadist named Setenza (Lee Van Cleef...
...DRAMA: THX 1138 4EB, by George Lucas, 23, of U.S.C., is a sci-fi chiller that looks at a cowardly new world where two varieties of humanoids, the "erosbods" and "clinicbods," wander through dark corridors and light-pierced concrete caverns in pursuit of the only truly human character, "THX" (pronounced with a lisp). A vision of 1984, it evoked in 15 minutes a future world in which man is enslaved by computers and TV monitors. Although portentous in theme, THX impressed the judges with its technical virtuosity: Lucas shot his future-oriented film entirely in present-day Los Angeles-much...