Word: springs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jars. It straddles vital Route 7, the only good east-west highway in Laos, and controls the gateway to the Upper Mekong as well as access to Route 13, which links the royal capital of Luang Prabang with the administrative capital of Vientiane. Before this year's Communist spring offensive, it was one of three major government outposts in Communist-controlled northeastern Laos. Then, last April, Communist forces began moving on Muong Soui. To relieve the pressure on the garrison, government troops under General Vang Pao, a seasoned guerrilla leader, mounted a daring diversion: backed by U.S. jets...
...went until two years ago when, just as casually as it had appeared on Diebenkorn's canvases, the figure disappeared. In its place was a bold structural architecture and a damp soft light suffused with the shrimp reds and spring greens characteristic of Ocean Park in Santa Monica, where he now lives. In his latest exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum, his "Ocean Park" series appears to be at first glance totally abstract. But soon the rudiments of a surfside landscape begin to emerge. Diebenkorn admits that a drive past the beach in the morning may affect...
...tourists may bring back $100 worth of Chinese merchandise (see THE NATION). The dispensation delighted shopkeepers in Singapore and along Hong Kong's sleazy Upper and Lower Lascar Row ("Cat Street"). In some of the larger Peking-controlled emporiums in Hong Kong, English-speaking shopgirls stood like smiling spring flowers beneath red banners and Mao portraits, waiting to take some of the capital out of the capitalist...
M.I.T., for example, last spring announced a program to build housing for its personnel and low-income Cambridge residents; Harvard is now preparing a comparable program. The City government has speeded up planning of several housing project that were long hanging in the air. Yet these hopeful signs do not mean that the plans will come to reality; continued political pressure is required for that...
Conventional documentary style, largely derived from English and French films of the thirties, exposes contradictions through reconstruction's. In the spring issue of Film Quarterly, Judith Gollub says that what attracted Alain Robbe-Grillet to the cinema was its ability to act on two sense simultaneously in a dialectical movement of statement and negation; in other words, soundtrack and image allow for greater possibilities of contradiction. Conventional documentary reconstructs reality through editing and asynchronous sound (voiceovers, etc.) and techniques borrowed form fictional narrative-music, establishing shots, distant shots, etc. Often, conventional documentaries contain footage shot in direct cinema style; however...