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...foreign troops be withdrawn from Laotian soil-while taking care to blame Hanoi for having pioneered the "illegal route of access and infiltration known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail" years ago. So as not to trigger a Communist stampede into western Laos-an event that would surely shatter Souvanna's already fragile relations with powerful Laotian rightists-the allies seemed ready to set some undeclared limits on Lam Son operations. There would be no strikes north of the 17th parallel, which forms the border between the two Viet Nams, or west of Route 23, which runs north-south...
...come around him a lot," she testified. Once she saw him pet a rattlesnake and bring a dead bird back to life. Sandy Good, 27, who was raised in a wealthy San Diego family, said: "The energy in that man you have not seen. I believe his voice could shatter this building...
Films like this defy reasonable synopsis, since detailed descriptions always shatter the suspense. Suffice it to say that The Lady's basic premise-wherein the heroine finds herself retracing a journey she has never taken and being recognized by people she has never met-is a theme with only a limited number of possible explanations. Alert mystery fans will probably come up with a solution about halfway through the film. Other members of the audience will be lulled into a pleasant state of mild befuddlement, induced by some snazzy film cutting, Claude Renoir's lush color photography...
...toys off the shelves by Christmas, as well as five additional toys that FDA refuses to take action on. Included are two poorly insulated stoves that reach temperatures of up to 600 degrees, a metal-casting set that can ignite paper or dangling sleeves, a crib mobile that can shatter in a baby's face, and a mechanical drawing toy with an easily breakable glass cover. Though makers of all five toys say that they have corrected the faults, Kaplan contends that stores are still selling the unimproved versions. "Toy models often have a short life," he said...
...sound track also gives itself airs -usually mock Bach, which cannot let the cast alone. Even when Cromwell sees his dead son, killed in civil war, the music interrupts to shatter one of the film's few poignant moments. Cromwell squanders most of its energy on background and battle. The gathering of legislators is truly a parliament of fowls, with the Earl of Manchester (Robert Morley) as a peacock of surpassing foppishness. The engagements between the Royalists and the Roundheads are conveyed with lapidary detail, down to the last cavalryman...