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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ways of the enemy and the equally hostile terrain; the street wisecracking kid; the slow-drawling bumpkin; a man called Hammer and another called Pretty Boy. And, of course, a lieutenant who is both green and ambitious and therefore more dangerous to friend than foe. Such characters have been AWOL from most movies about Viet Nam, and 84 Charlie MoPic would have curiosity value if it only brought them back and restored them to their chief role: demonstrating the masculine need for bonding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Unseen Star | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...State Department has accused Lilly of going AWOL in the war against narcotics. U.S. officials say the crucial test for Spike will be conducted in the Andes over the next 90 days and insist that no decision should be made until then. In a press conference last week, Ann Wrobleski, Assistant Secretary of State for international narcotics, asserted that the Upper Huallaga Valley "is not suitable for crops. Peasants moved into the valley to grow coca, period." She pointed out that the cocaine traffickers, who use the area to process the raw leaf into cocaine paste, have inflicted the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Spike or Not to Spike? | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...Bananas, so that he can leave her for Hollywood. He also takes advantage of the occasion to write one of his better lyrics: "The day that the Pope came to New York/It really was comical/The Pope wore a yarmulke." Ronnie, tired of being told he is a failure, goes AWOL from Fort Dix and plans to blow up the Pope...

Author: By Lois Leveen, | Title: Sleek House | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

...have a piece of paper from the United States Embassy that they gave me stating that the only charge that they have against me is for being AWOL," or Away Without Official Leave, Roberts told...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWOL Army Private Returns From USSR | 11/5/1987 | See Source »

...detoxified; and Director Michael Blakemore (who also staged the R.S.C. production) has encouraged Monty Python Alumnus John Cleese to exaggerate the role of the befuddled major into a cacophony of whinnies, grimaces and silly walks. Before being drafted for their latest tour, Nichols' Privates should have gone AWOL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rushes: Rushes: Aug. 6, 1984 | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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