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There was a sense of deja vu about the whole affair-an uncanny, paramnesic feeling that all of this had happened before. And of course it had. Half a million Muscovites filled Red Square with song and holiday color, as usual. Through the balmy spring weather rumbled the same long lines of tanks and rocket launchers, as usual. Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky delivered his usual threats of rocket-borne retaliation against any imperialist aggressor. From high on the facade of the Moscow Hotel, the usual giant portrait of Nikita Khrushchev eyeballed the crowd, and-as usual-the man himself, surrounded...
Summer is a-tunin' in. Television watchers are beginning to suffer from creeping deja vu as reruns start their annual trip around the circuitry. Most promising offerings for the few million viewers who will be watching (and the networks have apparently decided that there are very few indeed...
...political parties, release of all political prisoners, promotion of "free enterprise," and creation of a neutral Southeast Asian bloc that would accept aid from all nations, including the U.S. By no means do all the peasants fall for the Red promises. Says one in pidgin French: "Moi pas vu, moi pas croire" (Me no see, me no believe). But a great many others are convinced by the Reds, partly because, as one villager says, "The Viet Cong come into the fields and work with you. If there's no work to be done, they'll even wash...
...President Chiang Kai-shek drafted a congratulatory telegram for Nixon; next day, the officials talked with forced cheer about Kennedy's support of the Eisenhower position. Perhaps the most unblushing reaction came in South Viet Nam, where just before last week's coup, Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau showed newsmen a copy of Kennedy's book, The Strategy of Peace, flipped it open to page 63 and pointed to a passage he had underlined in red, calling for more aid to South Viet...
...Aaron's slum scenes, while effective, have an air of deja vu about them, and, at least at the dress rehearsal Lattended, the murders were sadly disappointing. More work may have been done on the show since then, but The Doctor and the Devils would be out of place on the stage even in the best of circumstances. It is a movie script. Its dozens of locales need dozens of settings; its fades and cuts and dissolves must be quicker and cleaner than the be-tiptoed blackouts that are necessary in the theatre. Much of the work's quality...