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...perimeters of Vietnamese outposts: to superstitious Vietnamese, the hoot of an owl is a dire sign of impending disaster. Back in the days of guerrilla war, some Viet Cong outfits even trained kamikaze foxes to make a beeline for light at night, then sent them off into well-lit U.S. and Vietnamese installations, carrying explosives and a timer on their backs...
...Communist side, there is a starchy general, complete with well-lit villa, Citroën limousine and champagne and caviar to seduce the willowy government agent; even the Viet Cong would find that amusing. On the U.S. side, Wayne's self-conscious heroes penetrate into the Communist-base area by parachute and then traipse through forests that are obviously south of the Mason-Dixon line rather than...
Haskell Wechsler's color photography seems gusty and professional, and one gets a real sense of the geography of a small Southern town. The night scenes are unusually well-lit and believable. Several tricky bits of camera work--in particular, a long moving shot of an automobile as its hood and roof are raised and Jowered --work well; several others...
Winding stairs have been replaced by Holyoke Center elevators. The laboratory is modern and well-lit, and instead of antiquated apparatus for emergency care there is equipment which even some big city hospitals don't have--such as the Pacemaker acquired...
...Bulls. Since before recorded history, Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers," was the gateway between East and West; it was marched over, fought over, civilized and reduced to ashes by a dozen different peoples. The treasures contained in the Iraq Museum's five spacious, well-lit and air-conditioned buildings therefore trace an unequaled pageant of man's patient attempts to build and rebuild that ephemeral thing called civilization...