Word: adrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Freshman Adrian Ezra, who later went on to claim the national single's title, demonstrated the fortitude and resolve of the Crimson that day. Plagued by nose and shoulder injuries, Ezra came back from a two-game deficit to provide a big fifth game...
...Adrian Ezra: All-Ivy and Rookie of the Year...The freshman immediately monopolized the fifth seed position to post an undefeated record in regular season dual matches...His only tournament "defeat" of the season came when a separated shoulder and fractured nose forced him to default in the semi-final round of the USSRA championships...
They also nurture communal outrage at the bureaucracy of the Veterans Administration, their latter-day Viet Cong, for making benefits difficult to obtain. Adrian Yurong, 45, who served about a year and a half with the 25th Infantry Division near the Viet Cong stronghold of Cu Chi, has been denied benefits because his job description shows he was a radar operator. Yurong, now known simply as Nano, was pressed into service, he says, as an infantryman throughout his tour. The VA grants that he has PTSD but says he must have contracted it elsewhere. Such arguments enrage V.F.W. activist Cowan...
JACOB'S LADDER. Vietnam vet Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is seeing things: whirling heads, killer cars, villains everywhere. Is he a conspiracy victim? Or is he dead? And if so, will any moviegoer care? Adrian Lyne's revved-up spook show plays like a Twilight Zone episode on steroids...
...with the war. And since at one point he is afforded a promising glimpse of the afterlife, we are reminded of Ghost (another effort by the same screenwriter, Bruce Joel Rubin), which one fervently hopes is not going to set the style for the '90s. In other words, director Adrian Lyne has encapsulated the cliches of three decades in a single dreadful and hysterical movie. This may be of interest to film students, who can learn from Jacob's Ladder everything they need to know about how not to make a movie. But ordinary audiences are advised to pass...