Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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llyushins for Hanoi. Barely had the shock of the disaster worn off than the Viet Cong struck again-this time at Lethanh, a district capital in mountainous Pleiku province. In the initial assault, the Reds overran the town, held it for three hours while other Viet Cong units ambushed three relief convoys in succession at almost the same spot on the highway. The toll: 106 government soldiers dead, 20 wounded or missing. Other Viet Cong traps clanged shut near Kontum and Quin-hon, and a full battalion of Reds struck the town of Binhchanh, just ten miles west of Saigon...
...have begun to question just how long the 52-month boom can continue, and only two weeks ago the President's chief economist, Gardner Ackley, cautioned that "our expansion is going to slow down a bit in the months ahead." Still, nothing had prepared the public for the shock caused by Bill Martin when he stood up and told the U.S. that it could tumble into a 1929-type depression if the leaders of the U.S. economy do not show some caution...
Director Miguel Picazo, in a first film blessed with faultless performances, heightens his effects with taste and economy and masterfully uncovers the cruelty buried under centuries-old layers of Spanish folkways. The best of this sober sex drama catches every nuance of self-denial in the shock of an unexpected word or gesture; the giddy, slightly drunken release of inhibitions among women at a bridal shower; the total revelation of loneliness and hunger in the eyes of a widower who paces through a long empty night, his imagination inflamed by a last light flickering out in the house across...
...floors below street level, and loses her. When he returns later, even the stairs have disappeared. He decides he is imagining things and tries unsuccessfully to get psychiatric help. He turns to a private detective (Walter Matthau), earnestly introducing himself as a cost accountant; then he realizes with a shock that he hasn't the slightest idea what a cost accountant is. After a quick check, Matthau reports succinctly: "For the last two years you've been doing something you know nothing about in an office that doesn't exist...
...minute after Joel Schwartz's Just a Quiet Note begins, Isabel gives herself a fix. Since the fact of dope addiction no longer has much shock value, this was merely distracting. Slipping into a documentary frame of mind for a moment, I wondered vaguely whether the actress's technique was authentic, and waited...