Word: typhoonous
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With the passions and the sufferings of the characters told in such mundane terms, one might at least expect Hawaii to provide external spectacle. But the storm sequence, designed to be the end-all movie typhoon, is miserable: the studio backgrounds are obvious, the camera set-ups repetitive, and the action disjoined and unrealistic. The climatic hurricane is just a breeze compared to the one Jon Hall and Dorothy Lamour went through back in '39, and anti-climactically, the deadly scourge that sweeps across Hawaii seriously depleting the population is just an epidemic of measles...
...armed men on helpless civilians. Whether it be mining of roads, machine-gunning of buses, kidnaping villagers, burning homes, or torture and murder, the Viet Cong employ "brutality with a purpose": to destroy the morale of the Vietnamese citizenry and discredit the Saigon government. Any opportunity will do. When typhoon rains caused massive flooding in the fall of 1964, the Viet Cong fired repeatedly at evacuation helicopters carrying civilians...
...quite sure what will happen if he tampers too much with natural forces. Since the atmosphere is an ecological container analogous to a Gemini capsule, any major change in the weather at one place is bound to affect the whole worldwide weather system. To destroy a typhoon threatening Kyushu might deprive a drought-ridden corner of India of needed rain or even parch Eastern Europe. To melt the icecap would almost certainly inundate much of the U.S. seaboard. Thus the masters of controlled weather would have to make sticky international and intranational decisions about which areas would get the good...
With Playboy helping with the promotion of the parody and by using Regan Press and Independent News Distribution the 'Poonies have a good chance if making a typhoon killing. Unlike the other three college parodies of Playboy this year -- Layboy by Stanford Shaparael, Placebo by the Princeton Tiger, and Pellboy by the California Pellican at Berkely -- the Lampoen centerfold will be Playboy color. The girl on the fold, toute nue, will be a spot different from Playboy's regular sun-tanned beauties. Lying on a red white and blue blanket by the sea under the hot sun, the bunny will...
...Odin's foreskin!, as the author says. What isn't in this belly-gutting, god-rotting typhoon of a book? In his bestselling first novel King Rat, James Clavell may have been only clearing his throat for this one, which seems every bit as long as it is. Its narrative pace is numbing, its style is deafening, its language penny dreadful. All the characters whirl like dervishes, especially Dirk Struan, a kind of Scottish superman who can borrow $5,000,000 in silver ingots from an Oriental tycoon, invent binoculars, and corner the world supply of cinchona bark...