Word: colonels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russian onslaught. But within the German bunkers Peckinpah focuses on some old familiar attractions: the maverick sergeant who hates officers and war but is still a helluva soldier (James Coburn), the gutless captain who schemes to ride to glory on the bravery of others (Maximilian Schell), the worldly colonel who copes philosophically with futility up and down the ranks (James Mason). There is also a side excursion to a military hospital with a comely nurse (Senta Berger) whose ministrations include hopping into bed with her patient...
Author McCullough describes the building of the canal as if it were a war. Its best-remembered hero was Colonel George Washington Goethals, chief overseer of the project, but equal credit must go to William Gorgas, the Army doctor who wiped out the disease-carrying mosquitoes, and John Stevens, a rough, amiable Westerner who refused to start digging until there were adequate warehouses, railroad facilities, housing and hospitals...
...Colonel Felix Arruza is a grotesque banana republic Zeus who is fond of procreating with comely peasant girls while his wife takes on the palace guard. Among Arruza's numerous offspring is Miguel Ángel Matalax Yanama, a 28-year-old wanderer who has studied law at Harvard and social science in Germany. He has lost an eye as a U.N. observer in the Gaza strip and he has been a teacher and a Red Cross worker in Biafra. But Matalax has eaten the bitter bread of illegitimacy and plans to over throw his dictator-father...
...Greek myth of the castration of Uranus, the rebellious son has the help of his mother. Niña Huanca, raped by Colonel Arruza when she was 17, is a figure of legendary proportions...
...captain of her own freighter, she lives outside history - obeying only the tides, stars, wind, and her own biological urges. She is also rich, and her mon ey supports Matalax's revolutionary plot, a wild, complex scheme that includes recruiting look-alikes to replace Colonel Arruza...