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...troops sit talking for hours in close tents and stifling bunkers, young men who hope, because they are lance corporals and gunnery sergeants, that they are above whimpering. The 1982 high school graduate from Pontiac, Mich., writing a letter home ("Don't worry, really!"), shakes his dried-up Bic. An infantryman with a tiny mirror, still not used to the G.I. buzz cut, stares at himself. A lieutenant from Live Oak, Fla., peeks nervously over the sandbag ramparts and wonders about the alien landscape. A private forks out the last globs of mushy tinned meat and then, dog-tired...
DIED. Fania Fénelon, 75, singer in the all-female inmate orchestra at the Auschwitz death camp, who recounted her ordeal in the memoir Playing for Time; of a heart attack; in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. Fénelon's 1976 book was made into a television movie four years later, with Vanessa Redgrave portraying Fénelon despite objections because of pro-Palestine Liberation Organization statements...
...more exciting--it offers mortal man the chance to play God. That is all an audience really wants out of a movie like this. There is a bit of Walter Mitty in each of us that yearns to travel back to yesterday and dazzle primitive folk with airplanes, calculators, Bic fighters and tape decks. Unfortunately TimeRider won't take us there...
...will become Western Europe in search of their elusive prerequisite. Upon their departure, exotic birds soar overhead in salute. The camera eye grows misty in reverence. Philippe Sarde's heavenly choir surges into oratorio orgasm. The quest for fire has begun. And all for the want of a Bic butane...
...White House candy of choice; he asks them what they think "new improved" labels mean, and then tells them. Most of all, and best of all, he goes to finicky lengths to test the extravagant claims of those commercials that everyone loves to hate. Will a Bic still flick? Will a Timex still tick...