Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other evidence of the CIA presence is also given by Air America, nominally a private company which contracts solely with the CIA. Air America has its own private air strip in Vientiane and its own pilots, many of whom were former officers in the U.S. Air Force who have resigned their commissions for the duration of their stay in Laos...
Pointed Fanfare. Does the C.I.C. want the denominations to strip themselves immediately of all such investments? No, says Director Frank White, a United Church of Christ layman and former oil and car dealer. The center hopes that the churches will examine their investments closely, influence companies where they can and get rid of their stock only as a last resort -and then with pointed fanfare...
Jodorowsky, as he himself explains to his unimaginatively curious questioners, is 42 years old, was born in Chile of Russian-Polish parents, studied mime under Marcel Marceau, has operated a theater in Mexico City where he also writes a weekly comic strip. Tired of "working with flesh" as a stage director, Jodorowsky made his first movie in order to "work with symbols." "John Wayne is a symbol, not a man," he explains. "For me, a picture must not have poetry, but epic poetry. Search for archetypes. I go it alone...
...scars of war, physical as well as psychological, have mostly faded. The sole reminders of the airstrip at Uli-Biafra's only gateway to the outside world during the long federal siege-are the rusting hulks of five relief planes that missed the runway in the darkness; the strip itself is a highway once more...
...sense, that is what happens in Why A Duck? The illustrations are the still life of the party. But as the brothers deliver their lines, now entombed in comic-strip balloons, both timing and inflection-the soul of cinematic wit-vanish. Those unacquainted with the films cannot hope to comprehend the fond archaeology of Why A Duck? No, this is a trigger for memories, a bright souvenir for the ages-the ages well above 30. Plus those youthful Marxists who flyspeck television listings for sporadic, interrupted revivals. Other coffee tables need not apply...