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Within 24 hours of graduating as the top physics concentrator in his Harvard class, Michio Kaku '68 found himself bald and in boot camp, learning how to toss grenades, dodge machine-gun fire, load an M-16 rifle and break a man's neck with his bare hands...
...step. Merely another rare bird: the best damned boot-in-the- mud nature essayist -- piscine, avian or human -- in the business...
...rejecting many projects that come its way on the grounds that they distort military life and situations. An Officer and a Gentleman, which like Top Gun dealt with naval aviation training, was turned down because of its rough language, steamy sex and, to the military mind, inaccurate view of boot camp. The Pentagon said no to WarGames because the military contends that a teenage computer hacker could never crack the U.S. strategic defense system. Even Rambo's lone-wolf heroics would have failed to pass muster, despite later praise from President Reagan. The Pentagon guidelines do not condone "activities...
...road from a boot in the face to what the Hungarians call goulash Communism is long. It is also challenging because it raises fundamental questions about the nature of totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is about the perfection of power, the centralization of control. In the face of imperfection and devolution, what happens to the totalitarian idea...
Ditto for "The Unsupervised Infant." Litt's workshop creation, though full of energy and hysterically hyperexagerrated Jewish angst, has a disturbing stream-of-consciousness aura which smacks of rancid Saturday Night Live. And it's silly to boot...