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...somewhere in the Midwest). The magazine's classified ads prove that this is more than show--people beg for assignments ("Central America preferred, but will go anywhere"). Dogs of War will appeal immensely to this crew. They will see exciting new weapons--the XM-18, a cross between a cannon and an eggbeater--and all the other high priced assault technology that they can now only gaze at in the magazines. Jamie Shannon, too, may seen their type of man, a tough bastard who can take pain and dish it out, who can deal with things...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: An Honest Cause | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

...stand still," he recalls in this extraordinary book of prose and picture recollections. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." The book includes a fair number of famous Mili pictures doing just that: his own version of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon shell stopped at one-millionth of a second as it leaves the nose of a fighter plane; Pitcher Carl Hubbell's arm and hand caught in the act of committing a knuckle ball; Ballerina Nora Kaye transformed into a tornado of multiple images during a pas de bourr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Princely Prints | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

Leslie Riley Cannon Cincinnati

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1981 | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...After the doomed rescue attempt, Lee and the other hostages were removed from the embassy compound and taken from jail to jail. He also spent some time in solitary confinement and had not been outdoors since last June. Lee's summation was terse and chilling: "I was just cannon fodder to them, just another body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostage Gary Earl Lee: I Thought I Was Dead | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

There is wonderful hand-held camera work in an opening sequence where a young Bonaparte first indicates his strategic gifts in a schoolboy snowball fight. But Gance was capable of hanging a camera on anything-a galloping horse, a firing cannon, a storm-tossed boat-thereby forcing emotional involvement with what otherwise might have been mere tableaux. His tour de force is a sequence in which the pitching of Napoleon's boat as he escapes his Corsican political enemies is crosscut with scenes of riotous action in the Paris Assembly in which the camera is made to rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Napoleon: An Epic out of Exile | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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