Word: brigand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Could this fate befall James Cameron, Hollywood's most daring and extravagant auteur? Not bloody likely. An '80s-style artist-brigand, Cameron makes ripe allegories, often about the search for a redeemer, that are both personal and popular. The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day all took big risks, with film form and finance, that paid off. Cameron is a daredevil director: he goes skydiving without a chute and lands in clover...
...problem with the export approach is that it puts the U.S. government in the unseemly position of pimping for the military- industrial complex -- using taxpayers' money, for example, to set up arms fairs abroad. The other problem is that today's arms customer may be tomorrow's armed brigand, a Saddam with his own stock of U.S.-made missiles...
Milosevic, says a European diplomat who knows him well, "is a brigand and a fanatic, but a sly, intelligent and sophisticated one." His ruthlessness has always been paired with competence and superficial charm. "He will convince you that he is a most reasonable and sympathetic individual," says a U.S. analyst, and his political instincts are remarkably shrewd. His arrival as head of the Belgrade party in 1984 ended a rudderless period of creeping liberalization, when the communists needed to solidify their grip on power after the death of Tito."What I liked most about him was that his desk...
...veterans of the California and Florida venues, though some have been retooled and upgraded. La Cabane des Robinson (Swiss Family Robinson Tree House) includes cunning new cave trails of "rock" artfully sculpted by the Disney team. Pirates of the Caribbean is a spookier and more elaborate cruise among brigand lowlifes. Big Thunder Mountain has been refined into one of the great coaster rides, with new ascents and dips and two hurtling trips in the dark...