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...Deer Hunter. Here Cimino creates a portrait of the war that beggars logic and is boundless in terror. An early Viet Nam sequence, in which imprisoned Americans are forced to play Russian roulette by their Viet Cong captors, is one of the most gut-wrenching ever. With Peter Zinner's virtuoso editing, an agonizing sound track and Vilmos Zsigmond's fiery cinematography, Cimino creates a beastly carnival of death even before brains are splattered across the screen. His portrait of South Viet Nam, from the infernal chaos of Highway One to the noisy decadence of Saigon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Hell Without a Map | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Several of the experts were particularly disappointed with Carter. Said Sovietologist Paul Zinner of the University of California at Davis: "He was terribly evasive, terribly moralistic in vague, evangelical terms. His strategy was to go on the offensive against the President, rather than to discuss his own program or to show the real flaws in Ford's approach." Added Berkeley Political Scientist Nelson Polsby of Carter: "When faced with a problem, he offers you a nostrum, waves it over the diseased limb and then goes away." But Carter had his defenders among the professionals. Said Harvard Government Professor Samuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE BLOOPER HEARD ROUND THE WORLD | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

Despite reports that particles from the tail of the Giacobini-Zinner comet might damage the Russian artificial moon or deflect its orbit downward, University astronomers seem to feel that there is no danger of such an event. They said last night that the warning by British astronomer A. C. Lovell that the satellite might be destroyed because it lacked atmospheric protection had been misinterpreted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Palomar Prepares High Power Camera To Track Satellite | 10/10/1957 | See Source »

Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government, Rowmund Pilsudski, member of the Polish Political Council, the Polish government in exile, and Paul E. Zinner, former member of the U.S. State Department and a member of the Russian Research Center will speak on the panel, which will be moderated by Alex Inkeles, member of the Russian Research Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Speak Tonight | 3/24/1953 | See Source »

...Paul, E. Zinner, author of "Tito and the Cominform," who was termed by council president Samuel A. Olevsen '54, "the man at Harvard who knows most about the trials," will discuss the question with Guy J. Pauker, instructor in Government, and Adam B. Ulam, assistant professor of Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Panel of Authors to Discuss Czech Purge Trials Tonight | 2/10/1953 | See Source »

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