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...sake of realism, refugees from Saigon were dressed in black pajamas, and a Philippine aborigine tribe was brought down from the mountains to portray Montagnards. As camera crews shot around them, they went about their everyday lives of working, eating and even giving birth. Since the Pentagon threw up its hands at the antiwar, antiArmy script, Coppola turned to the more amenable Philippine army, which provided helicopter pilots. The only trouble was that, although the Philippine pilots knew how to take off and land, they were baffled by the intricate maneuvers Coppola demanded. He handled that problem by hiring former...
...deserters from draft resisters. The latter, they argue, may have been honestly opposed to the war for reasons of conscience, since they refused to participate from the beginning. Deserters, on the other hand, took an oath to serve in the military, and then reneged on their commitments. Opponents often portray deserters as cowards who fled the battlefield...
...dedicated musicians. There is no indication of this in Donald Elliott's didactic text, a series of short essays in which the instruments of the orchestra archly explain their characteristics. Thus the bassoon: "I am something of a deep thinker." Somehow, this unpromising libretto inspired Arrowood to portray each instrument being performed by one of his bewigged and frock-coated reptiles. The results are as absurd-and as charming-as Babar the elephant enjoying the Comédie Françhise...
Charles de Gaulle liked to portray an image seven feet tall, the incarnation of France, flawless. But he was addicted to at least one small sin, according to former British Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson. During a TV interview, Wilson recalled a visit with the French President back in the 1960s. When De Gaulle began talking about his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, Wilson asked him what he did there during the quiet evenings. "I knew he read westerns," said Wilson, "but in addition to that, he said he played patience [soli-taire]. I asked...
Moynihan has sought to portray himself as a pragmatic New Deal liberal who favors federal economic and social welfare programs when such intervention is likely to prove effective. He has endorsed the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill, and promises to fight for increased federal aid to New York. Moynihan has repeated referred to his opponent as "Lord Buckley," charging the incumbent has been insensitive to the needs of the poor and has in general been totally ineffective as Senate advocate for New York's needs...