Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a war between the states of Alabama and Missouri, and the prize is poison. The trophy, a low 30,000-sq.-ft. brick building, is surrounded by high fencing topped with barbed wire, surrounded by armed guards and laden with alarms, sirens, cameras and a medical station. Up to 100 soldiers at a time would train there, each repeatedly giving blood samples during their stay to ensure that they were not contaminated by the lethal agents within. These trainees, cloaked in protective overgarments and masks, would detect and swab a bleachlike solution over military gear spotted with deadly...
...recent recommendation by the Pentagon to move the world's only known school using lethal nerve agents from Fort McClellan in Alabama to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri has sparked a ferocious public relations battle. As Alabama partisans engage in guerrilla warfare to sabotage the move and keep the facility, Missouri is in such a rush to claim the prize that some of its citizens fear the state is cutting corners and keeping them in the dark...
...Missouri town vacated 12 years ago because of its dioxin-laced soil. Suddenly, the pollsters found opponents outnumbering supporters nearly 2 to 1. Although labeled "privileged and confidential," copies of the $5,000 telephone survey are mysteriously ending up in the hands of reporters and environmentalists in both Alabama and Missouri...
...everyone is pleased. The Alabama Civil Liberties Union is weighing a legal challenge, while some Alabama businessmen fear the gangs will hurt the state's image and sour its business climate. Out on the roadside, chain gang member Sears sees things in more elemental terms. "They wouldn't allow you to chain five dogs together like this," he says. "We're moving backwards, not forwards...
...devised by writers Michael Schiffer and Richard P. Henrick (with a script polish by Quentin Tarantino), Crimson Tide is an old-fashioned mutiny movie -- on the U.S.S. Alabama instead of the Bounty or the Caine. Actually, this is a three-mutiny movie: commanders change faster than Italian Prime Ministers. This king-of-the-hill game gives Hackman, Washington and their cohort the chance to run around the submarine with guns and scowls. The milling is underscored with a heavy bass line that will leave moviegoers' bottoms tingling; and it is shot with lots of close-ups of manly jawlines...