Word: sergeanting
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...Dutchman, Van de Wetering is a student of Zen who has spent time in a Japanese monastery and now lives in America. His new book draws on his knowledge of Japan. In outline the plot is very conventional. The commissaris and his two assistants, Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant De Gier, are required to search out and destroy a Japanese connection that supplies drugs and stolen art to Amsterdam. The villains are the yakusa, Japan's Mafia, who of course have their own extralegal culture with its warriors, taboos, codes and pretty girls...
...that generate the affectionate, and effective, contempt animating the first portion of Feldman's film. Even when he and it move further afield, following the disgraced Beau into his North Af rican exile as a legionnaire, there's some amusing game afoot. Peter Ustinov, as a sadistic sergeant, is equipped with a movable scar - not unlike Feldman's shifty hump in Frankenstein - and the director has given Ustinov and his horse matching peg legs. But the whole pro ject soon begins to deflate under the hot sun. Maybe the canvas - all those broad desert expanses and empty...
Died. Katharine Sergeant White, 84, the sensitive and self-confident first fiction editor of The New Yorker. She brought a fine literary taste and a liberal pay rate for short stories to the publication, helping transform it from an unassuming satirical weekly into a first-run showcase for many of America's leading authors. Among them: John Cheever, John O'Hara, John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov and Mary McCarthy. She married a New Yorker writer-though he turned out to be a master of nonfiction-named E.B. White...
...well-disciplined officers avoided adding to the violence. In Bedford-Stuyvesant, for example, the situation gradually came under control as enough police arrived to station four or five cops on every corner of the most troubled area, while other cops prowled in marked and unmarked cars. One worn-out sergeant told me: 'My ass is numb and my shoulders are scrunched from riding with five other men in a Pontiac Tempest." But it worked. As tensions eased, the police avoided making arrests as much as possible to help cool things...
...proceed across the well-marked 2.5-mile-wide DMZ into North Korea. There he landed and inspected the aircraft for damage. President Carter later related that Miles then "got back into the helicopter and took off. The North Koreans, who were approaching, apparently shot the helicopter down." Miles, Sergeant Robert Haynes, 29, and Sergeant Ronald Wells, 22, were killed either in the crash or by North Korean gunfire after the chopper hit the ground. Schwanke survived and was taken into custody...