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...south, where most of the French lived. Insulting the dignity of a woman in public is a crime in the south, but not in the center, where such an act would be unthinkable anyway. In the central city of Hue, a sworn statement of innocence before the statue of Buddha serves as admissible evidence. Not in southern Saigon...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It is a more serious and successful attempt to proselytize the antic way of freaky esthetics. It may even be considered the New Testament of hip mythology: Wolfe implies a likeness between Kesey and various religious figures-including Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha. In 1964, Kesey forsook the literary world, having already established an LSD cult in La Honda, Calif. Wolfe records the events, carefully drawing religious parallels...
...revolutionary terrorists. Meanwhile, Fong becomes a political pingpong ball in a riotous contest between Chinese Communists and American agents, both of whom have somehow concluded that Fong is a pivot in the ideological struggle between East and West. Fong endures it all with the patience of a grinning Buddha: "As a carpenter he did not have to grin at all. As a grocer he found that he spent most of the day grinning. He would not have noticed it except that it made his face hurt." As the story unfolds in a gracefully comic style comparable to that of Joyce...
...Bangkok's resplendent Temple of the Emerald Buddha last week, 1,500 soldiers of the Thai Black Panther Di vision worshiped before leaving for Viet Nam to become part of a Thai fighting force that will soon total 10,000 men. Addressing them, Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn made it clear that they were going off to fight for Thailand, which he believes is "the next victim" of Communism in Southeast Asia. "Even today," he said, "the Communists are infiltrating Thailand and increasing their subversive actions against our country." In fact, at least 2,000 guerrillas are busy spreading terror...
...boss, played by Orson Welles, wants him back. Eventually Welles, whose acting is confined to grinning like a corrupt Buddha, removes the Gadfly's sting by acquiring its assets and offices. Undone, Andrew makes one more commercial, this one about Truth. The night of a banquet for the Creativity in Advertising awards, he unreels it-a naive diatribe against planned obsolescence that includes footage of a bulldozer shoveling bodies at Buchenwald and an atomic mushroom cloud rising while a little girl sings All Things Bright and Beautiful...