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...only frightened South Vietnamese who was contemplating suicide. Some of her classmates said that their parents had asked them to bring home large quantities of sleeping pills. Others considered poison or an overdose of tranquilizers. Even many Catholics spoke of suicide. One, the wife of a civil servant and mother of nine children, fled Hanoi when the Communists took control of the North in 1954. She explained: "We cannot live with them. Since there is no longer any place left to run, the only option is death." Otherwise, she believed, the Communists would execute the children before her eyes...
...Pereiman and it doesn't really matter who directed since it is hardly a film anyway Pereiman apparently won't talk about his Mark experiences anymore--he's quite right. His great work has been over shadowed by the voracious energy of cultists who locate him mainly as a servant of the brothers. But his script here is so witty and sharp that it has a character quite discernible from Kaufman's, Ruby's or certainly from the later works. Almost no one has written more distinctive comedy than he--his Nobel Prize has been a priority long ignored...
ANOTHER SHAVIAN hero here is the shrewd servant Louka (played convincingly by Roberta Dahlberg) who without pondering irrelevantly about higher love, cashes in on Sergius's moral earnestness to gain a betrothal. Stephen Kolzak turns in a priggish performance as the servile servant Nicola. The casting that sets the tone for the production, however, is that of hulking Tom Shea and lisping Lois Pike as Raina's parents. They are real bulls in the china shop...
...peaceable times, a medieval life had more civilized compensations than smug modern man imagines. Until the great castle halls fell into disuse, master and servant ate congenially in common. At table (regularly spread with fresh linen), two people often shared a bowl, helping themselves with fingers. But a strict etiquette governed the sharing, and hands and nails were expected to be scrupulously clean. Plumbing in the larger castles, the authors say, was better than that of 17th century Versailles: every floor had a washing area-some with running water, even baths. Latrines were often conveniently perched out over the castle...
...entrance to the airport became subject to bribes. By the morning of the priority flight, thousands of Vietnamese were besieging planes on the landing strip. The airport was described as "insecure," and not because of the enemy. Under these conditions it was hard to imagine a single Vietnamese civil servant willing to stay on the ground and organize the promised U.S. evacuation, much less how it could possibly be organized...