Word: planets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lush vegetation of that subtropical climate. Why must we give up on Vietnamization? It was not the policy but the place that was wrong. Vietnamization could work in Alabama, given the proper leadership. Mr. Nixon was correct in ranking Mr. Thieu among the top leaders on this planet. I nominate Thieu as the first governor of the new state of Vietbam...
Still, everything is done with respect for the science-fiction genre, and the best action scenes are as confoundedly enthralling as sequences in old Saturday serials. The special effects-including a peppy but menacing space pet, and the incineration of a planet and assorted phenomena among the stars-are lovingly rendered and spectacular within the modest means available. The cast is recruited mostly from the ranks of nonprofessionals, and Co-Writer O'Bannon appears in a rather hefty supporting part. He also functioned as film editor and production designer, while Producer-Director Carpenter took time out to write...
...postulates a tribe of Iron Age men called Ortelgans, in ancient times the builders and rulers of a splendid city called Bekla, but now, because of military and moral decline, a ragtag band of hunters huddling fearfully on a river island at the edge of the Beklan empire. The planet is earth, but the local geography is all of the author's making, and he has great fun with maps, invented place names and at least four different languages...
...fears mount and the desperation of world leaders grows, Professor Roger Revelle calculates that the world can produce enough food for 38 to 48 billion people; and the London Economist points out that "if the arable land of our planet were cultivated as efficiently as farms in Holland, the planet could feed 67 billion people." Clearly, in the words of Edgar Owens, of the Agency for International Development, "the world is not yet confronted with the Malthusian apocalypse...
Shopping Center, the authors assert, is the beginning of a new world hegemony of the World Managers, a monolithic group totally agreed on how to conduct the planet's affairs. "What World Managers want from the American State," the authors say, "is a low military profile and a much more aggressive foreign economic policy." And "some corporate executives talk of building a 'belt of capitalism,' which will tie the U.S.S.R. and China into an integrated global system...