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Variations on that theme are heard throughout a land divided by its memory. On a ferry from My Tho to Ben Tre, a slender man in his 40s tells TIME Photographer Dirck Halstead about his training in New Mexico for the South Vietnamese army. Now, he says, he works on a collective farm, digging ditches and planting crops. Is his life better? "I think it is better now," he says, his eyes darting nervously toward the other passengers. Then, lowering his voice, he confesses that it is worse. "Everyone is so poor. The former regime was no good, I know...
...past a wary receptionist. And watch closely, for in the wink of a camera's eye he is going to be a furious Customs inspector whose bite is worse than his bark. Or a homosexual lisping his way past a posh club's maître d' with a particularly mad invention. Murphy exudes the kind of cheeky, cocky charm that has been missing from the screen since Cagney was a pup, snarling his way out of the ghetto. But as befits a manchild of the soft-spoken '80s, there is an insinuating sweetness about...
...discovered in a pool of blood. The contents of his wallet were scattered on the floor, the front door was unbolted, and a rear window was ajar. Nevertheless, homicide investigators declined to say that the chef was a victim of an attempted burglary. Said Bill Cunin, maítre d' and general manager of Kobayashi's restaurant: "There was no one who was overtly anti-Masa or even upset with Masa...
Perhaps the most unusual company that will appear at the festival all summer is the Théâtre du Soleil (Theater of the Sun) from France. Founded in 1964 by Oxford-educated Director Ariane Mnouchkine, the troupe attempts to create a theater of pure metaphor, stripped of the last trace of realism. Believing that all Westerners are too close to Shakespeare to really see him, Mnouchkine borrows from the traditions of the Orient to seek the dramatic core of his plays. French, from her own translation, is the language coming from her actors' mouths, but the dramatic idiom...
...chansonniers are back. Those uniquely French stand-up political satirists had fallen relatively dormant during the less controversial, more prosperous Giscard era. Now they are thriving as never before and playing to full houses in the Théâtre des Deux Anes and other pocket-size theaters on the garish lower slopes of Montmartre. If the audience claps with delight, it is not at the Socialist government's heavenly victory so much as at the sight of the great and powerful being ridiculed. "The French have always enjoyed making fun of their politicians," exults Comedian Pierre Douglas...