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Largely overlooked in the fighting was the fact that the North Vietnamese were gaining considerable political ground in the countryside as well. Cadres moving in behind the troops can blend in with the population in the hope of establishing themselves more or less permanently in South Viet Nam-and cause the government serious problems for years, even if the invading army is pushed back. There was evidence last week of such infiltration around Saigon, Kontum and Hue. In one village south of An Loc, Communists distributed leaflets, then bought a fat pig and treated the entire village to a "Liberation...
...kind of fretful, nervous caution that pervaded Russia during the Stalin era. There is an echo of Stalinism in the prevalence of the cult of Mao, which overwhelms the visitor. The country seems slightly dazed, as if only recently emerged from shock therapy. There is a visible effort to blend in, not to be singled out because of deviant actions or opinions...
...CABARET," Berlin on the crumbling brink of the Third Reich and Hitler's holocaust is the historical background York was to blend with his unfortunately recurrent role of the young, innocent, effete British student-scholar. "For background I read a book on the rise of Hitler. What I felt about my role? In 'Cabaret' I tried to preserve the sense of 'I am a Camera' you also find in Isherwood's Berlin Stories." York isn't bullshitting. either, when he cites Isherwood. He means that he has in fact read the stories. "In other words, I was involved in what...
John Hazlewood. In addition to being a rare sampling - for the rest of the world - of Australian rock, this is a surprisingly effective blend of hot licks and liturgy. Tom Davidson's rock group. Bakery, shows the influence of Britain's Traffic, Bruce Devenish's Jazz Ensemble that of several...
...HEART AND STOMPED ON IT W35 another terrifying teaser in the weekly tabloid's gory old days. The paper's new day is something else. In a total turnabout, the Enquirer has banished cannibalism, sadism and sick sex in favor of a blend of upbeat success stories, gossip by and about celebrities, plus an overdose of the occult and the quasiscientific. The switch to a kind of respectability has had spectacular results. Circulation, stalled at about 1,000,000 at the height of the Enquirer's grisly period a few years ago, has risen...