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...Northerners. Helping keep order are fresh recruits, known contemptuously as Ba Muoi ("30s," meaning opportunists who joined the revolution after April 30). Says a recent exile from Saigon: "The North Vietnamese Army is still viewed as an army of occupation, not liberation." Adds Hoang Troung Tan, a former civil servant who escaped this fall: "The officials treated me and my father like slaves. My father is a fisherman who had to sell his catch to the government at a very low price. All the crops and products are being taken north...
...assuring each of these dupes that he is to be the sole heir, Sly's nimbly resourceful servant, Simon Able (Hector Elizondo), levies a handsome tribute in the form of anticipatory payments of one sort and another against the presumed inheritance...
Dutch officials then launched a new investigation. They decided to arrest Menten on a Thursday, but delayed the seizure until the next Monday. When police arrived at his mansion, a servant reported the Mentens had left on a long trip-destination unknown...
...life seem priestly now, but it must have looked solipsistic then. "His aim," writes MOMA's director of the department of photography, John Szarkowski, "has been not to bend photography to his purposes, but rather to immerse himself in its will-to make himself its instrument and servant." The point is symbolized by an early photograph in the catalogue of Callahan at work, pointing a bellows camera at the reedy edge of Lake Huron 36 years ago. His head is hidden under the cloth; he looks like a camera-headed wading bird, patiently dabbling for nourishment...
...production, like a comic character, somersaults after its stumble and, standing again, brushes itself off, relatively unharmed. One reason for this is the broad comic talents of three of the actors. John Bacquie intelligently plays Gremio, Bianca's overaged suitor. Richard Price (as Lucentio's impersonating servant Tranio) effortlessly outwits better men. And John Cooper turns in a commanding performance as Grumio, Petruchio's spluttering servant. His attempt to unpeel layers and layers of clothing while telling the story of Petruchio's and Kate's trek through the snow, practically steals the production...