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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICA HURRAH offers three of Jean-Claude van Itallie's kaleidoscopic views of the changing and coalescing patterns of life in the U.S. A well-directed cast performs with striking precision...
...straining every public facility from electricity to garbage disposal to the breaking point. The city is racked by refugees, traffic jams, thousands of U.S. and Vietnamese troops-and is prey to the random terrorism of the Viet Cong. Yet for all his tasks and troubles, the mayor, Colonel Van Van Cua, a doctor and brother-in-law of National Police Chief General Loan, has less of a staff than many a minor province chief...
...Pianist Van Cliburn played at Michigan's Interlochen National Music Camp, recorded two Chopin sonatas in a New York studio, packed the Hollywood Bowl for Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, and ate a folksy dinner with his parents and friends at their home in Shreveport, La. In between times, he mused about himself, his fame and his music: "The role of a concert artist in a concert hall will never be eclipsed...
Outside the giant fieldhouse, the grayness of the military academy was even grayer than usual in a shroud of fog. But inside, Cadet fans cheered ecstatically as Army's squad, led by a tiny sophomore named Van Evans, turned in an incredible all-around performance to clinch the meet before the last three events were...
About a third of the film reflects no political bias: shoppers in a busy department store, workers in a modern textile factory. About a third of it is warmly pro-Ho: President Ho Chi Minh himself appears only in stills, but the movie offers an interview showing Premier Pham Van Dong as a merry little grig who seems about to warble Whistle While You Work. There is also a sequence in which grinning peasants hoist the engine of a fallen U.S. bomber on their shoulder poles and haul it home in triumph like a captured tiger. About a third...