Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...place stands a tall, blond-haired Indianan named Larry Bird. After a few grueling years in the front office, he's decided to jump back into the battlefield...
Disney's America would also bring a daily horde of 30,000 visitors in 25,000 vehicles, swarming far beyond the Disney enclave to "destroy our battlefield," in the words of Annie Snyder, 72, feisty guardian of the meaning and mood of the national park established along the old Bull...
...employing such notables as Jody Powell, former press secretary to Jimmy Carter and now a top public relations operative. Ironically, Powell was one of the leaders in a 1988 campaign that stopped millionaire developer Til Hazel from dropping a shopping mall right onto the second Manassas battlefield. Powell claims that nine of his ancestors fought for the Confederacy, and mall construction would have put pizza parlors on the crucial Stuart's Hill. "He must have needed the money," complains Snyder, one of Powell's erstwhile comrades who marched with him then but sees him as a turncoat...
...They were going to bulldoze Confederate bones for that mall," protests Powell today. "Disney's America is four miles from the battlefield. People out there are fooling themselves if they think development is not coming along that Highway 66 corridor. This is about as good as you can get." That may be true, but it is hardly a solace for those whose imaginations still hear the crash of muskets and see General Thomas Jonathan Jackson standing like a stone wall...
Here the happy times end, and the film breaks in half. World War I erupts and Jules and Jim fight on opposing sides. Each one's greatest fear is that he will kill the other on the battlefield. Truffaut skillfully mixes archival footage of battles with shots of Jules in the trenches, writing passionate letters in German to Catherine, who is now his wife...