Word: battlefield
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...interests of families, has enforced a ban on photos and videos of coffins, and although journalists complained, it took an independent blogger (Russ Kick, at www.thememoryhole.org to find and publish military photos of the caskets at Dover Air Force Base. And unlike in the Vietnam war, images of battlefield dead, even when available, rarely make it into the American media, in part because of concerns that they would seem intrusive or distasteful. We will spend millions for pictures of Angelina Jolie's baby, but we hesitate to part with a dime of audience capital for the biggest story...
...every office at Red River, and on all the shop floors, stands a black cutout figure of a soldier with a helmet and rifle at the ready as a constant reminder of who the customer is and that the smallest errors can have the most serious consequences on the battlefield. A sign affixed to the front of the silhouette soldier says, WE BUILD IT AS IF OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT. THEIRS...
...many girls saw this 1948 English musical melodrama and, no matter what the heroine's fate, decided to put on ballet slippers? Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's fevered parable of ballet's uneasy kinship of music and dance turned an art-business into a battlefield of egos, lusts and near demonic possessiveness. It established Anton Walbrook as the Svengali of his day and made a star of Moira Shearer...
...killing of Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the ambitious and notorious leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, removes a high-profile terrorist from the battlefield. But readers were skeptical about whether al-Zarqawi's death would hasten the end of the war - and whether it merited the big-red-X treatment on our cover...
...killing of Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the ambitious and notorious leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, removes a high-profile terrorist from the battlefield. But readers were skeptical about whether al-Zarqawi's death would hasten the end of the war--and whether it merited the big-red-X treatment on our cover...