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...front of him. "Just kill people to the north," a sergeant bellows. "Light him up," cries another soldier as a gunman approaches. On Nov. 17, even as Representative John Murtha was stirring debate on Capitol Hill by calling for an immediate redeployment of U.S. troops, the young soldiers of Blue Platoon were amid a citywide battle that revealed just how hard it will be to pull U.S. troops out soon...
Throughout the day, members of Blue Platoon had been hunkered down in their battle-scarred observation post (dubbed "Hotel") in Ramadi, sniping at reconnaissance units. Then, four hours before Murtha spoke, al-Qaeda let loose an attack on all five American outposts in the city--an assault that a hardened Army sniper dubbed a mini--Tet offensive, referring to the coordinated military actions the Viet Cong launched across South Vietnam one fateful...
...achy-breaky; rather bold and uptempo. It's true that "Sherry," the first Seasons' hit, was a standard girl-name song (they had a lot of those) with a you-look-so-fine, gonna-make-you-mine lyric. But listen to their later, more mature (I want to say Blue Period) work and you'll hear little pop poems about hard-won love lessons, wrapped in fairly complex narratives...
...Record producer Crewe (Peter Gregus) hires the guys, but his florid style doesn't match their earth tones. After one take, he says of the harmony, "I hear it in sky blue. You're giving me brown." Tommy snaps, "That's because you're paying us shit." In desperation they look for guidance from above and see the name of the next joint they're playing, Four Seasons Lounge, in neon against the night sky. In my favorite bit of dialogue from the show, Frankie exclaims, "It's a sign!" (Given all the rim-shot repartee in this show...
...McManus and the Bears third line. But Harvard’s own young tertiary offensive unit answered back only 92 seconds later when freshman Jenny Brine forced home a rebound on Shipe to equalize.Shipe finished with 33 saves, while Boe racked up 26, most of them bailing a novice blue line corps with a lingering habit of committing turnovers in the defensive zone. As the Crimson defense continued working out the kinks, its offense struggled as well, the power play especially.“We were trying a new formation,” Solley said. “We were...