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...dotting the mouth of the Siak River, and captured the oil terminus of Dumai. On Bengkalis Island a rebel platoon watched interestedly as an army transport steamed leisurely up to the dock like an excursion steamer, tied up, and disgorged a file of government troops who sauntered down the gangplank like tourists. The rebel platoon leader surrendered and everyone sat down...
Only three days before Girard walked up the gangplank, the Japanese Ministry of Justice was still weighing legal protests and public clamorings that Judge Kawachi had been too lenient, that Girard ought to be haled in for retrial. Candy Girard, onetime B-girl, even got notes from Japanese suggesting that she ought to go commit harakiri. But the Justice Ministry decided in the end to let Girard go home. Said the ministry, with remarkably broad understanding of the case's basic meanings: "We pay our respects to the [U.S. Supreme Court] verdict that gave Japan jurisdiction over the case...
...marrow in between was a combination of film clips, photographs and dialogue lovingly composed by Producer Burton Benjamin, Associate Producer Isaac Kleinerman and Writer John Davenport into a Concerto for Orchestra and One Man. Some rare scenes: a Soviet film of Lenin; an impatient Churchill pouncing up the gangplank of a World War II warship; a silently terrible shot of the British wreckage at Dunkirk; a boyish, 53-year-old General Dwight Eisenhower munching lunch on the floor of Franklin Roosevelt's auto in North Africa. In the next 25 hour-and half-hour weekly installments the same technique...
...burr under the saddle, he has helped to hurry things along. Speaking of Vorticism, a movement initiated by Lewis, Wagner remarks, "It was a necessary interim. It 'hustled the cultural Britannia, stepping up that cautious pace with which she prefers to advance.' And Britannia was certainly goosed up the gangplank to Modern Art." Lewis, then, with his blasts and diatribes too often ill-conceived and over-angry, at least helped prevent stagnation and kept alive an awareness of the phony and the sentimental...
With a winning smile for even the stolid longshoremen, Grace walked up the gangplank, made her way to the sun deck, where another crowd awaited...