Word: wired
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trifle too discreetly so-in making the connection between Dracula's blood lust and other, more conventional forms of eroticism. This time round there is plenty of money to do a handsome production, to hire first-class actors and use sophisticated special effects (the stuffed bat on a wire was always the curse of the genre efforts...
...latecomer to the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, Murray had broken into the show by serving as unofficial second banana to the stars, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd and Gilda Radner. When he finally seized centerstage, he stopped being a straight man and became a live -or maybe frazzled-wire. Murray is a master of comic insincerity. He speaks in italics and tries to raise the put-on into an art form. His routine resembles Steve Martin's, with a crucial difference. Where Martin is slick and cold, Murray is disheveled and vulnerable. One feels that Murray...
...larger than the provincial Thai capital. Its inhabitants were able to bring some valuables with them into exile; the camp has a nightclub, several silver shops, a produce market, a makeshift gym and an arts and crafts center. Farther south, camps for Cambodians are little more than barbed-wire enclosures. The Vietnamese camps are the worst of all because of their makeshift locations and because, in the ancient racism of the region, the refugees from Viet Nam are hated wherever they...
Dusk is just settling over the paddies and poultry farms along the Shum Chun River as Captain David Thomas, 27, and his squad begin their daily rounds. Floodlights soon snap on and illuminate the terraces of barbed wire and cyclone fencing that lead down to the river. Thomas, a veteran of British service in Northern Ireland, suddenly spots movement through his "starlight scope...
...Here come two on the far ridge," he says. Sure enough, two figures can be seen burrowing under a fence, then twisting through the barbed wire. By the time they clear the barrier, Thomas and his men are waiting for them-with bread, beer cans of hot tea and, after questioning, swift and sure repatriation to China...