Word: ross
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This was not the case for the Australian Ross Terrill. He not only reports the major issues in his book The 800,000,000, but also provides political, cultural, and historical background necessary to evaluate the significance of the developments he reports. Both a scholar and a journalist. Terrill had been to China briefly in 1964: last summer he was invited to return for forty days. As a scholar and a writer, he had at least three angles from which to view his hosts. First, there was history. Because he was familiar with Chinese history, he could compare the circumstances...
...large, the advisers are embarrassed by orders to retreat under fire; unlike many G.I.s who serve only in American units, they have considerable respect and liking for the ARVN soldiers, although not necessarily for their commanders. "These little Bengies [Bengal Tigers] are great soldiers," says Colonel J. Ross Franklin, adviser to the ARVN 21st Division...
...carno question invites endless literary lawyering. Is it not possible, for instance, to write excitingly about violence without being a carnographer? Yes, of course; James Jones' fine combat novel The Thin Red Line is not carno, nor is James Dickey's Deliverance, nor Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer stories. Mickey Spillane's 1, the Jury is carno. No, it is not possible to draw a line, and yes, David Morrell's First Blood is unmistakably carno, well over the line that can't be drawn...
...dialogue is mostly stand-up comic patter, and the movie is virtually bereft of visual humor. Herbert Ross, who was also responsible for T.R. Baskin and the musical remake of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, continues to direct as if he were dressing a window at Bloomingdale's. Everything looks terribly fussy and sterile. Play It Again, Sam badly needs the headlong energy and comic chaos that Allen worked into Take the Money and Run and, especially, Bananas, both of which he directed himself. Allen's comedy is at its best when it is loose and utterly crazy, untouched...
...ISHBEL ROSS 349 pages. Harper...