Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most dangerous part of the 150-mile run up the Mekong from the China Sea came between An Long, 20 miles south of the Cambodian frontier, and Neak Luong, site of a Cambodian naval base 32 miles southeast of Phnom-Penh. With radios at An Long blaring reports of heavy enemy crossfire ahead. South Vietnamese river pilots refused to guide the ships the last few miles to the frontier while Cambodian pilots declined to cross the frontier into foreign waters. Some captains, deciding to proceed anyway, argued loudly for arms. "Give us some machine guns," demanded one. A South Vietnamese...
...Stanislas for a murder she committed (her fourth, with attempts at five and six also during the film), she uses his lawyer to help destroy the crucial piece of evidence against her -- a house. Truffaut indicts her by closing in on their holding hands, on French television, at the site. Stanislas, who watches this on a prison television, ends the movie reeling dazedly around the prison courtyard...
...emphasizes the political implications in similar scenes. He shows us beautiful young women, Untouchables, who carry bowls of cement to a construction site. He sees uneducated and illiterate Brahmins collecting the fruits of their offices as priests. Wisely he refrains from a theoretical explanation of economic and social unequality. Looking across a field of bricks hand-made by laborers paid a few rupees a day he asks, "Need anymore be said about this... Doesn't this explain...
...Malle's view of a group of mechanics trying to fix a flat tire. Ten of them jump on and off the tire trying to fit it to a rim that is too large. They don't understand that technology will not allow certain possibilities. Similarly, at the site of a derailed train Malle highlights another strange mixture of men and machines; dozens of workmen pile rocks under the wheels, forming a ramp for the train to move onto the track...
...name a few -- has been exciting. The building, in its scale and layout, with rooms of all sizes under one roof, is ideal for hosting a variety of space-consuming activities jointly, and could serve, for example as a resource center combining visual and performing arts. Surely another site could be found for the new dormitory; it would be a shame for a building with such a rare atmosphere of creative potential to go down. Sandra Matthews...