Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bigger does not always mean better, and parts of the new version are unnecessarily long-winded and could be chopped. In particular, descriptions of some of the fighting, though gripping, are hard to follow: the reader is sucked into a vortex of almost incomprehensible battlefield jargon...
...effort Osius along with set designer Steve O'Donnell and graphics designer Gino Lee have come up with one elegant set. A white screen framed by bronze--like the black canvas of an as-yet unpainted portrait of a war hero-provides the backdrop for the simple set, a battlefield-like void. This screen provides an ingenious mechanism for utilizing Brechtian techniques. Plot summaries are flashed on the screen before each scene slides projected onto the screen change the setting in the blink of an eye. The screen also enables Osius a clever conceit: he presents his play...
...inconvenient guest arriving belatedly at a middle-class dinner party. As for the other ages, they are seen variously as: a sex-education class in which, despite a live demonstration of the subject, the students pay about as much attention as if it were algebra period; a battlefield in which the officer class sleeps late, dines well and goes tiger shooting while the soldiers fight and die; a four-star restaurant in which the sin of gluttony is acted out with a vividness unprecedented in the history of cinema...
...take Dilger, a fighter pilot and former dogfight instructor, long to decide that he did not want to replace the GAU8 with some expensive missile. The General Electric cannon performed spectacularly in tests. Over a simulated battlefield in the Nevada desert, his A-10 pilots destroyed 65% of their targeted tanks at a distance of 3,000 ft., and more than 80% at 2,000 ft. The cannon fires off 70 rounds a second. Says Dilger: "We found that the optimal burst to kill a tank was only 35 rounds...
...sometimes the music is a weapon, and sometimes it is a trap. For centuries, Celts have given themselves battlefield noise and nerve with bagpipes, making the "our song" of the regiment, the tribe, stirring up the blood. The pipes have their wild rhetoric. It may both stiffen and imprison the spirit. Sometimes people cannot escape from their songs. The Irish gift for the instant ballad that glorifies this afternoon's martyr will ruin a human heart and turn children into killers, the heroes of tomorrow's pub songs...