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Marion Hedgepeth (Jan-Michael Vincent) wants to be a Marine. His ambition recalls that old joke: he wants to be a Marine in the worst way. The harder he tries, the clumsier he becomes, until the Marines give up. He washes out of boot camp as a "baby blue." His uniform is taken away and he and his fellows-in-disgrace are sent on their way in powder-blue fatigues...
...equally intense in its falsely gibing nonchalance and in its true sorrow. But what about Playwright Rabe and his obsession with the same terrain and subject? It is worth noting that none of his "war" plays take place in the combat zone. Pavlo Hummel probed the rigors of boot camp, Sticks and Bones exposed the unhealing scar tissue of a returned Viet Nam veteran, and now Streamers exhausts itself in an intermediate no man's land where fear barely dares to speak its name, or love its deviant desires...
...philosophy at the Sorbonne. He knew and was deeply influenced by Jesuit Theologian-Anthropologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, quotes Thomas Aquinas frequently, and is respected as an authority on the mysticism of St. John of the Cross. He is also a practitioner of yoga and a published poet to boot...
...deepening unease and a new political awareness among the country's 22,000 officers. The military men are split on what their role should be in the nation's life. Most generals are veterans of the Spanish Civil War. Staunch Franquistas, they want to maintain the boot-clicking discipline of the old regime and may well demand severely repressive measures if social disorder continues. Many of the junior officers have basically been apolitical-docile career men satisfied to lend nominal support to the status quo. But some are beginning to question that function. One reason: low salaries have...
...point, he was in the process of slicing off the heel of a massive cowboy boot. "Men's shoes," he said. "They take a long time. This one here needs the soles cut down and new ones built up. It'll take four or five hours." Felix said he would charge...