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Action Director Don Siegel (Coogan's Bluff) changes his pace in The Beguiled, a Southern gothic horror story that is the most scarifying film since Rosemary birthed her satanic baby...
...Invasion Bluff. Yet Nixon did little to assuage the rising number of Americans (the polls now place it at well above a majority) who favor a definite time limit on the presence of U.S. troops in Viet Nam. While repeating that his goal remains "total withdrawal," he also reasserted his insistence that the U.S. must retain a residual force (of unspecified size) until the Communists withdraw all their troops from South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos and release all U.S. prisoners...
...Christmas carol Good King Wenceslas, the king's good intentions get lost in a bureaucratic maze. When Parkinson analyzes beards through history and finds them to be a sure indicator of lack of civilization (a thicket behind which older men could hide their uncertainties), he is at his bluff best. But the crotchety professor can also be dull. His strident common sense often sounds simply pompous; and his habit of describing imaginary conversations seems contrived. Parkinson's biggest problem is best described in another law as yet unelucidated by the master: iconoclasm amuses in direct proportion...
...land. Khe Sanh, where 6,000 Marines had endured a bloody 77-day siege in 1968, was a moonscape of shell craters flecked by twisted steel runway sheets and discarded shell casings. A few miles to the south, the Rockpile was overrun by weeds. On a bluff overlooking the Laotian border, the hulks of battered Soviet tanks still lay rusting at the Lang Vei Special Forces camp, where ten Americans and 225 South Vietnamese died in a single night of hand-to-hand combat...
Fabulous it may be, but it is tough, too ?transient and lonely. Martha Mitchell, whose husband often works 15 hours a day, knows the loneliness well, and sometimes the ruthless power city overwhelms the happy kid from Pine Bluff. "A lot of this takes a great deal out of me," she said recently, and these lonely low points are likely to generate some late-hour phone calls to friends, which the public never hears about...