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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flicks the finger of suspicion from boy to nursemaid and back again, and his choice cast can make even the sillier dialogue sound plausible. Still, Nanny's terrors remain doggedly low key, partly because every audience knows too well that an old spook of Bette's stature seldom leaves her dirty work to anyone else...
...carrying nuclear weapons, first began making the 5,200-mile round trip from Guam to Viet Nam, critics snorted that it was overkill run riot, using elephants to swat mosquitoes. But the point was to hit the V.C. without warning (the B-52s fly so high that they are seldom seen or heard by their targets) in the heart of their eleven major strongholds, keep them edgy and off balance. The SAC planes have hit such strongholds as the Iron Triangle hard and often, and it is now so pitted with B-52 bomb craters and caved-in V.C. tunnels...
Working Together. Perhaps the best measure that the nation increasingly shares Ky's credo is the fact that negotiation with the Viet Cong is seldom even discussed. "The only way we can lose this war now," says Thieu, "is in a political or moral way - not in a tactical way. So why should any of us talk of negotiation? If we talk about negotiation now, we give the enemy hope and confidence." Still no one in Saigon - or Washington - has any illusions about the job remaining to be done. General Harold K. Johnson, Army Chief of Staff, used...
...rest of the film is equally far-out but seldom funny. Obviously enamored of Dr. Strangelove, Scenarists Christopher Isherwood and Terry Southern (also co-scenarist of Strangelove) commit the funereal folly of thinking that any joke about death is worth repeating To cremate a pet cheerfully, embalm a baby, or mold crazy expressions onto the face of a corpse (John Gielgud, for example) may be good for laughs among professional crapehangers, but on a giant screen such gags seem merely gratuitous...
Bunny Lake Is Missing. "They don't believe Bunny really existed," sobs Carol Lynley. And that thread of plot seldom frays in Producer-Director Otto Preminger's big shaggy suspense thriller Though Carol claims that her four-year-old daughter Bunny was kidnaped from a London day school, no one at the school actually saw her. Virtually no one m England has seen her, it turns out. Even her toys have disappeared, and evidence suggests that the child may be a figment of her mother's tortured imagination. With or without a daughter Carol has come...