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Anyway, it's apparent from the first frolicking scenes of Running that this film's Chicago--grim, gray and covered with dirty slush--is clearly not the same shining citadel we saw last week in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There's crime on the streets of Chicago, unlike in picture-perfect Winnetka, and its up to Costanzo and his oh-so-cool sidekick Ray Hughes to whip the outlaws into shape...
Secretary of Education WILLIAM BENNETT at the Citadel, Charleston, S.C.: "Isaiah says, 'All our works are nothing--our molten images are empty wind.' There is support for theoretical pessimism. But practically, operationally, you should not bring such an attitude to your tasks. You should go about your business with some measure of enterprise, of seriousness, of good humor and of interest. I do not mean to recommend, as the Schlitz Brewing Co. did some years back, that 'You only go around once, so grab all the gusto you can.' I'm not talking about grabbing gusto or swilling beer...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has denounced it as a "uniquely barbaric act." Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane says the trend is an "incredible perversion." Indeed, many Britons, who have long regarded their country as a citadel of order and civility, were shocked at the findings of a recent government report showing that in 1985 the incidence of rape increased by 29% in England and Wales. Worse, it climbed by 56% in the City of London. One cynical police official called rape Britain's "biggest growth industry...
Porch is a professor at a The Citadel, the famous South Carolina military college, and his occasional digressions on tactics can get boring for those who aren't hardcore war nuts. Another annoying Porch tendency is to criticize the actors for making mistakes. "Any man with a sense of self-preservation would have executed an about-face and turned home," he chidingly writes of Paul Flatters, who led the first and second expeditions. As it happens, Flatters is cut down by the Tuareg four pages later. Porch knew it would happen the reader whew it would happen-the chapter...
...hillsides are dotted with the carcasses of U.S. armor. At Camp Holloway, in the Central Highlands, youngsters play outside the old U.S. barracks, while visitors can still make out THE SWAMP scrawled across the wall of the club in which helicopter pilots used to unwind. And outside the shattered Citadel in the ancient capital of Hue, where thousands of soldiers and civilians were killed, the air still seems touched by the sickly smell of death...