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...Mille stream and soon finds himself up Spectacular Creek without a paddle. This footless, episodic epic on the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha tries to crowd everything in Buddhist literature into one elephantine moving picture. The parallels between Japan's first bid for a slice of the supermovie market and the Biblical pageantry of Samuel Bronston and Dino de Laurentiis are numbing: skyscraper temples to sinister gods, unseen choirs zum-zumming on the sound track, corps of nimble nautch dancers in every other reel. And when it comes to uplifting the masses or spreading the gospel, Buddha...
India already gets the largest single slice of U.S. aid-$775,100,000 in 1962 v. $403,900,000 for second-place Pakistan-and Nehru's socialist government has not been notably grateful. The Bokaro plan calls for a $512 million first loan and another $379 million later; if granted, it would become the biggest single U.S. foreign aid project ever undertaken anywhere...
...article has, however, overlooked the transcendingly important fact that no matter how we slice a pregnant woman, she nevertheless becomes an obstetrical "cripple...
...herself in moments of despair evokes such heartbreak that viewers will want to hug her and say, there, there, everything will be all right. There is a taste of Honey and an aftertaste of Anger about The L-Shaped Room that give it an honorable place among British slice-of-life films...
...roommate at the Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German ambassador gets a sword right in the middle of the international compound, and Samuel Bronston's spectacularized version of the Boxer Rebellion is under...