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...incessantly--and if he feels he fuels the fires that protect his family, it's his lack of control that starts a costly gang war that ends in his death. Caan's part is different than the other thugs he's played: he animates his body with a high-strung rage barely controlled. When he lets go, dragging a piggish brother-in-law through the streets and bashing his body with a garbage can, the effect is exhilarating...
THESE DAYS OF TET HAPPINESS ARE BROUGHT TO YOU COURTESY OF YOUR GOVERNMENT'S SOLDIERS IN THE FIELD read a banner strung across Saigon's Cong Ly Boulevard last week. All over the city, red flags-intended to summon good luck, not Communism -fluttered from balconies. Saigon's citizens celebrated with dragon parades, or gathered at pagodas to pray for financial success, domestic tranquillity and a peaceful new year. In the Chinese section of Cholon, which was badly bloodied during the Communist Tet attacks four years ago, the banners bravely promised that WHAT
...tells it, Dietrich ingeniously got around regulations against such a personal installation. He rented a downtown office, had a ticker legally put in there. Then he discovered that a trolley line to the Ambassador had some unused insulators on the poles and that he could get a private line strung on them at 250 a year per insulator...
First came the short stories by Christopher Isherwood. Then John Van Druten strung them together to make a play called I Am a Camera, which eventually became a movie with Julie Harris. All this furnished the raw material six years ago for a Broadway musical called Cabaret, which is now reincarnated as a movie...
...killed. A new Corn God takes his place. This cumbersome cycle was once thought to ensure the growth of crops. Today it is mainly practiced in Manhattan's art world. Discovering-or inventing-a new Corn God every year is a basic market strategy, since art consumers, strung out on the disintegrating pluralism of American art in the early '70s, constantly need fresh inspiration. The newest beneficiary and victim of this method is realist...