Word: bien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet evening in the sleepy little town of Bien Hoa 20 miles north of Saigon, base camp for the South Vietnamese crack 7th Infantry Division and its eight-man U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group. The presence of the Americans symbolized one of the main reasons why South Viet Nam, five years ago a new nation with little life expectancy, is still independent and free and getting stronger all the time-to the growing chagrin of Communists in neighboring North Viet Nam. Since the beginning of 1959,Communist infiltrators have stepped up their campaign of terrorism, assassinating an average...
...residential compound where the eight Americans lived in Bien Hoa, Master Sergeant Chester Ovnand finished a letter to his wife in Copperas Cove, Texas and dropped it in the mess-hall mailbox. Major Dale Buis of Imperial Beach, Calif, had arrived in Bien Hoa only two days before and was showing his new friends pictures of his three young sons. Two of the officers drifted off to play tennis; the other six men decided to watch a Jeanne Crain movie, The Tattered Dress, on their home projector in the grey stucco mess hall. While they were absorbed in the first...
Nabbing the stars, says Walter Bien, head of the commercials assembly line at Four Star Films, "involves a lot of personal ingenuity." Adds another commercial producer: "One time Bing will do it for nothing; another time he wouldn't do it for all the dough in the world." One of the lures is simple friendship: John Wayne agreed to the Gillette spiel because his longtime friend Dick Powell, a co-owner of Four Star, had promised Gillette some big names if it gave him the contract to film its commercials...
...Theatre du Vieux Colombier nous a apporte une representation bien vivante. Ce n'est pas Racine tel que l'on acoutume de le voir. Il est joue avec une force, vraiment une ferocite, qui laisse le spectateur lui-meme epuise apres quelques scenes. Mais c'etait une force quelquefois ingouvernable--chez Marguerite Jamois (Agrippine), Hubert Noel (Brittanicus), et Jacques Francois (Neron, un monstre ne peut-etre plutot qu'un monstre naissant); une force pas toujours accordee a la tension si forte des lignes alexandrins eux-memes. Mais dans le role de Narcisse, Raymond Gerome a ete merveilleux, une belle anguille...
...Bien, monsieur...