Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spread that the U.S. had abandoned the giant commissary at Newport, setting off a frenzy of looting by some 3,000 Vietnamese. As burglar alarms brayed, looters wheeled off shopping carts filled with sugar, medicines and frozen pork chops that began immediately to thaw and drip hi the blazing sun. Cops in the nearby parking lot watched with amusement, occasionally plucking a few items for themselves from passing shopping carts as a kind of exit toll. Finally a truckload of military police arrived, firing M-16 bursts into the air, and the looting stopped...
...before, Lam Son Square had echoed with the sound of carbines, M-16s and rooftop machine guns. Now the square was quiet, the pavement under our feet baked to cooking temperature by the morning sun. I glanced at my watch: it was 10:42. People peered through iron gates that had been pulled shut because of the 24-hour curfew. Their eyes were easy to read. "You're leaving us," they said...
...agencies, which have assisted many past immigrant groups, but the Vietnamese effort is more difficult because they are arriving in such a rush. While they are awaiting processing and a sponsor, the refugees must adjust to crude living conditions in huts and tents that are baked under the Southern sun...
Nothing is right here, except for Sutherland and a quiet scene where he sits in a garden chair, almost sleeping in the sun, listening to oranges fall from a tree. He is waiting to die. It is all in his face, conveyed by Sutherland with the fine subtlety the rest of this movie so flagrantly lacks. It is Faye's face that is emblematic of The Day of the Locust-twisted, false and clumsy, a death mask made of Silly Putty...
...from Texas, moguls from Hollywoo -plus all their relatives, of course. And every mother's son of them a potential Burke's buyer. That ought to restore the balance of trade. Britain's all washed up, is it? We'll show the blighters where the sun never sets. Jeeves, another round...