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...first by barge and later across bridges hastily constructed north of the Great Bitter Lake. By week's end the force of 15,000 men was making headway in a three-pronged assault on the western bank of the canal: northward toward Ismailia, southward toward Port Suez and westward toward Cairo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONFLICT: Arabs v. Israelis in a Suez Showdown | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

Eight years later, Ulbricht faced a different kind of crisis. Since the end of the war, more than 3.6 million East German citizens had fled westward, attracted by higher living standards and greater freedom. Ulbricht acted to stop this flood on Aug. 13, 1961, by ordering his soldiers to seal off East Berlin with the infamous 27-mile Berlin Wall. It was cruelly effective: the mass exodus was stopped. Over the years police have killed and injured at least 168 East Germans trying to escape past the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: The Last Cold Warrior | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

Scarecrow. The Easy Rider of 1973, two down-and-outers working their way east toward money and destruction in an inversion of the Westward push myth with the rainbow pot of glory at the end. The movie not only lacks coherent narrative, it lacks any form at all. Rather, for whatever success it may have trained its sights upon, the film seems to depend heavily on audience gullibility vis a vis "art at the movies" built up by the new media hypes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 7/10/1973 | See Source »

Scarecrow. The Easy Rider of 1973, two down-and-outers working their way east toward money and destruction in an inversion of the Westward push myth with the rainbow pot of glory at the end. The movie not only lacks coherent narrative, it lacks any form at all. Rather, for whatever success it may have trained its sights upon, the film seems to depend heavily on audience gullibility vis a vis "art at the movies" built up by the new media hypes. Ten from VYour Show of Shows. A sampling of the 160 90 minute weekly shows directed and produced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

Scarecrow. The Easy Rider of 1973, two down-and-outers working their way east toward money and destruction in an inversion of the Westward push myth with the rainbow pot of glory at the end. The movie not only lacks coherent narrative, it lacks any form at all. Rather, for whatever success it may have trained its sights upon, the film seems to depend heavily on audience gullibility vis a vis "art at the movies" built up by the new media hypes. Sleuth. Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award-winner directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, in his own words "the oldest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

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