Word: awol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN THE FILM refrains from digging up dead dirt on a dead woman and concentrates on creating the live persona of Rose, things improve. The entire sequence with Frederic Forrest as an AWOL Army sergeant is enchanting; Midler's gifts as both a comic and serious actress shine as she creates an original character rather than rehashing old rumors about Joplin...
...sings the metaphysical blues quite like Samuel Beckett. Both his novels and his plays are one long threnody. He grieves because God does not exist. But he is not perfectly certain that God does not exist, otherwise why a title like Waiting for Godot? Is God AWOL...
Despite Hanoi's superiority in experience, weaponry and logistics, low morale in the Vietnamese forces could blunt their advantages. Heavy casualties in Cambodia have severely impaired some Vietnamese soldiers' will to fight. Recruits have bribed their officers to let them return home. The AWOL rate is so high that the army command has announced a two-year reorganization plan that will better integrate the demoralized southern troops into a more aggressive fighting force. Mao Tse-tung may have been right when he said, "Weapons are an important factor in war but not the decisive factor; it is people...
...gloomiest central figures in the history of adventure films. Richard Kiel, the giant steel-fanged heavy of The Spy Who Loved Me, beats on many people, including Barbara Bach, who will be remembered from the same James Bond affair. Carl Weathers, a.k.a. Apollo Creed, is an angry AWOL improbably mixed up in the mission. What a bunch...
...brought in to the outside orderly room. "I drank Brasso," one frightened recruit whimpers. While the sergeant first class calls the base hospital, Stratton mutters, "He didn't drink Brasso. He's just trying to get discharged." Later an MP walks in with an 18-year-old AWOL soldier, who tries to explain that he was worried about his wife. "He's going to get 14 days' extra duty and 14 days' restrictions," remarks Stratton in the inside office, while the downcast recruit waits outside. "He's essentially ruined himself." Suicide attempts, car crashes...