Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political squabbles, economic pressures and social problems add to the government's burden. The Assembly, a hawkish group of men mostly from a middle class that stands to lose more from peace than the war-weary peasantry, distrusts Huong. Assembly members consider him soft on the issue of negotiations with the Communists. A Lower House deputy, Tran Quy Phong, recently threatened that "if Huong's government seeks a compromise with the Communists, it will be overthrown by the people." Inflationary pressure has mounted. Since Tet, the government has issued a billion piasters ($8,500,000) in new currency...
...Some of his staffers admitted that their man had lost about 50 delegate votes in the past few weeks. They still believe, however, that he will get at least 700 on the first ballot, 33 more than needed for nomination. North Carolina, once counted as solid for Nixon, went soft, may go for a favorite son. In the Midwest, there were signs of a slight shift toward Nelson Rockefeller. In the South, Ronald Reagan was having a visible effect...
...little boats would slip into the maze of marshlands for long patrols, far from the medical and military aid of the mother ship anchored in one of the larger rivers. The most obvious means of supply was by helicopter, but most of the Delta is too wet and soft to support the weight of a chopper...
...sweep of greying yellow buildings. A few once posh hotels and restaurants remain open, but the epitaphs to their elegance and cuisine are written on the walls. "Under the revolutionary offensive, this establishment belongs to the people," reads a sign in a once privately owned shop. Loudspeakers shatter the soft night air, calling the faithful to a "solidarity with North Viet Nam" rally, while just a block away at Monseigneur Restaurant (steak: $15), harassed waiters try to evoke the old days by wrapping label-less bottles of beer in napkins. Transportation is largely by bus. Gasoline rationing has virtually emptied...
...Truffaut's own attempts at working Hitchcock-style, planning every shot and cut in advance of the shooting. Coutard's claustrophobic framing suggests "plan-sequence," sketches of shots realized by the camera, and there are no traces of the nouvelle vague hand-held technique of Truffaut's films through Soft Skin. A shot will follow a telephone wire in close-up through two rooms, stopping briefly at a closeup of the phone, then dollying into a medium close shot of the victim, unaware his phone wire has been severed. In this respect, The Bride Wore Black is a calculated film...