Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demand: "Does Eugene McCarthy want to make righteous speeches or does he want to end the Viet Nam war?" Un less Senator McCarthy's "passion gap" could be overcome, conceded his staff, the Minnesota Senator's name as a presidential aspirant seemed destined to be writ in water...
...army officer next to me pointed out some Air Force jets in an airstrike. All I could see were the wings swooping down beneath some hills to reappear seconds later. Any explosions were hidden from sight by the hills. I saw plenty of old bomb craters filled with rain water. You could practically follow the craters right into the approaches to Saigon's Ton San Nhut airport. So there really is a war going, I thought. Such are first impressions...
...usually starts with a couple of roosters ruining my sleep. Our cook brings in a nourishing, if unexciting, breakfast of hot Bulgar wheat with concentrated milk and sugar, coffee and/or Keen (Nestle's), a lemon-lime powder we use to give the filtered water some taste. The Bulgar is like Wheatina or pablum and comes out of a big sack with an American crest on it with the USAID handshake symbol over that, followed by the words, "given by the people of the United States of America"--this is as close to welfare living as I hope to get. USAID...
Combining this with the truly sloppy stereotyping of Benjamin's parents and Elaine's law-school suitor, The Graduate doesn't hold water dramatically or structurally, and ultimately says nothing. Nichols' satire of the uppermiddle class establishment dates back 15 years, and has the impact of a butter knife. A thematic cop-out, The Graduate's simplistic affirmation of love, honesty, and individual liberation provide the cold comfort of a second-rate Aesop fable...
...photographer of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Haskell Wexler, also cameraman on In The Heat of The Night. When the sun shines, Nichols points his camera at it; if a car approaches the camera, Nichols bounces the headlights off the lens; should a character jump into the water, Nichols makes the camera jump into the water; and as mood becomes essential, well, Nichols can always shoot it with a shaky hand-held camera...