Word: cannoneer
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...eerie, treeless Turkish landscape, is something which Richardson doesn't really succeed in doing. Individual sequences are sometimes breathtaking--Nolan delivering the order to charge from the heights, the Brigade advancing down the valley at a slow trot, the final torrential surge of the survivors through the Russian cannon. But hovering above the whole elaborately-conceived spectacle is its museum-like quality: the generals watching the action from the heights above the valley are clearly aware that they are witnessing not the Light Brigade charging, but the Charge of the Light Brigade. Therefore the whole Crimean climax of the film...
...believe that flowers can overcome the cannon...
...Olympics always present a surpassing spectacle, and Mexico City last week greeted the greatest gathering of athletes in history; 7,226 competitors from 119 nations. In Olympic Stadium, to the boom of cannon salutes and the blare of bands, the teams marched in review before Mexico's President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and 80,000 cheering spectators. As always, the parade was led by the Greek team and wound up by the host nation. The formation was familiar, but this year its colors were uncommonly bright. The Mexicans were dazzling in white. There were green-gowned Nigerians and Australian girls...
Seven British soldiers in postwar occupied Germany are assigned to guard the obsolete, World War II Bofors antiaircraft cannon. Their mission is obviously a useless exercise but the soldiers nonetheless mount their guard in a battered barracks, awaiting the dawn. Thus unwinds a tightly spun military yarn that has a touch of allegory. Shrouded in canvas, the Bofors gun is never seen in its entirety; though it orders their lives, it remains irrelevant to the soldiers, who blandly carry on their battle with boredom. So painstakingly does The Bofors Gun record the brutalizing effects of military routine that...
...pushing through the panicked flight of thousands of townspeople. He found that the Nigerians had split into two groups. In two days of pitched battles, the five brigades under Steiner's command managed to blunt the advance of both federal columns, which, unable to get their cannon across the river, were fighting without their usual massive artillery support. At week's end, the Biafrans were dug in near two vital crossroads, while the Nigerians were repairing the bridge in order to move across their heavy firepower. Ojukwu's hopes rested on obtaining new supplies: he claimed...