Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such feats, the likelihood is that the Green Berets will hardly recognize themselves-or, for that matter, their surroundings or their enemy-in John Wayne's version. In the movie, the camp's single .50-cal. machine gun sits splendidly unprotected on a little hillock and the commanders direct the battle from a fragile watchtower that the Communists somehow manage to miss to the last; in reality, Green Beret camps are heavily bunkered, often reinforced with cement. In the movie, an evening's relaxation for Special Forces officers involves an outing to a Miami-style club...
...achievements, they campaigned on simplistic clean-up platforms and brought mass-media familiarity to the voters. Two, in fact, were popular television funnymen: Yukio Aoshima, 35, who plays a meddling grandmother on a weekly situation comedy, and Nokku Yokoyama, 36, member of a slapstick comedy team. From the Sato camp came other celebrities. Toko Kon, 70, is a Henry Milleresque Buddhist monk who gained fame as a writer of pornographic short stories, now likes to sling outrageous insults at prominent figures on a television talk show. Hirofumi Daimatsu, 47, coached Japan's Gold Medal women's volleyball team...
...league's 16 teams had acceded to 21 player demands, including increases in the guaranteed minimum salary (to $12,000 for second-year men, $13,000 for third-year men), payments for preseason exhibition games ($500 per game) and such minor benefits as air conditioning in the training-camp barracks. But on the 22nd point-pensions-negotiations broke down. Determined to show its muscle, the N.F.L. Players Association, headed by Detroit Lions Guard John Gordy, ordered its 600 members not to report to their training camps. The owners retaliated by closing down the camps, and professional sport...
This latest arrival from the Czech cinematic surge is both sad and slapstick in an old-fashioned way. It is a Chaplinesque morality play about simple innocence in the rapacious world, aptly matched with direction and photography that point up the pastiche without collapsing into camp...
...breeds familiarity, and familiarity breeds sales. The recently retired White Knight (for Ajax cleanser) was the most ridiculed horseman since Don Quixote. He galloped so many laps around the plains of suburbia 1,000,000 in five years that after a while, he became a rather endearing symbol of camp. What is more, according to one claim, his magic lance added a not-so-subliminal phallic meaning...