Word: scrappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMERICAN bookstores are so flooded today with studies in radicalism of one kind or another that most of these exercises invariably find their way to the scrap heap. Not that they are all pat rhetoric, it's simply that no real market exists for them. The political mood of the country is so staid and complacent that there is little interest in critiques which forcefully challenge American society or even go so far as to suggest unorthodox remedies for the evil of the Indochina...
...film knows what to make of itself: Its last scrap of dialogue describes a napalmed rose bush burning-a vision too beautiful to be saddening and a devastating slap at an audience new exhilarated by Bergman's art. Bergman wanted to go still further and remove the audience from its passive acceptance of screen images. In last spring's The Passion of Anna, the audience is forced to appreciate and analyze the elements of dramatic characterization: each of the participating actors freely explains his own conceptions of his work at breaks in the narrative. The story itself is constructed...
...illegal-scrap-metal network stretches across Viet Nam and involves not only barefoot street urchins who gather used casings, but also the wives of South Vietnamese generals. Even so, surprisingly little public attention has been given to the operation. "One reason it's so hard to prove," says a U.S. embassy source, "is that investigations are extremely dangerous. When so many people are making so much money, they aren't going to stand by and let someone ask a lot of embarrassing questions. It's much easier just to kill him when he gets too close...
Other profiteering can be traced to U.S. bureaucratic indifference. Scrap lumber in Danang was formerly donated for use by homeless refugees. Today it is sold by contract to a wealthy Vietnamese trash collector, who then sells it to refugees at inflated prices. In one refugee village, where the average daily wage is less than 200 piasters (73?), a 4-ft. by 8-ft. sheet of scrap plywood costs 800 to 1,000 piasters; a cardboard carton brings 200 piasters. Under the system that has evolved, the refugees pay rich Vietnamese for the privilege of living under cast-off American crates...
...Washington in effect would decide. Finance Minister Fukuda dismissed that talk as a zatsuon (grating noise). A Tokyo banker added that the idea of cutting U.S. shipments of raw materials to Japan was "reminiscent of the eve of Pearl Harbor, when the Roosevelt Administration placed an embargo against shipping scrap iron and oil to Japan. Nobody on either side of the Pacific," he said, "would be idiot enough to wish for a replay of that, except on the screen." Officially the Japanese line remained as stated recently by Fukuda: "In no corner of my brain is there any thought...