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...CAMPAIGN boasts about the plot, but the story is a vague, improbable fantasy about an elite society of aristocratic decadent French diplomats marooned in Thailand with no one to talk to but each other's wives. These men and women live in splendid Thai places, sunbathe and give parties, and murmur complacently that "our only enemy is boredom." Their unwritten rule is to fight boredom." Their unwritten rule is to fight boredom by making love. Throughout the movie the characters keep asking each other if they are bored, and the response is predictable...
...impassively. In between episodes he pontificates to her on the metaphysical nature of love and sensuality. It's soft-core scriptwriting like this that makes the hard stuff look at least honest. After he has taken Emmanuelle to an opium den and watched her being raped by a native Thai, he intones. "Real love is the erection, not the orgasm"--something Emmanuelle must be painfully aware...
...military rule for three decades, led with 72 seats. Party Leader Seni Pramoj, while conceding that he "was heading straight for trouble," immediately announced that he would try to form a coalition with three or four other moderate and rightist parties. A likely coalition member is the right-wing Thai Nation Party, headed by Pramarn Adireksarn, 60, a retired major general and a prominent businessman. Late last week Seni said that he had gained 119 seats with the help of other parties, enough to form a minority government. Pramarn is considered the front runner to become Deputy Prime Minister...
...Temple of Dawn, the third volume, Honda meets yet another reincarnation of his lost friend--this time a Thai princess named Ying Chan. A millionaire by this time, Honda builds a large summer home and invites the princess to visit him there, hoping to win her affections. His hopes come to naught, however, and he resorts to peering through a hole in the wall to watch her make love to another woman. Years later, he learns of her death by cobra-bite in Thailand...
When a rock superstar turns up his nose at breast of pheasant or Maine lobster, Stewardesses Sandy Cronin and Candy Burton-wearing bodystockings -prepare his favorite dish. Bob Dylan gets his cherished vegetable casseroles, washed down by Chateau Mouton Rothschild '64. For Led Zeppelin, there is Thai food. Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, demands branch water from an arcane spring in the Ozarks for his bourbon. The Allman Brothers get collard greens and Coors beer. For British groups, there is Irish ale and a stock of their favorite Dunhill and Rothman cigarettes...