Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eccentric] and tell her to start sending airplanes here!" Later, complaining that Blair had been "undiplomatic, hot-tempered and totally drunk" during the talks, Amin charged that the envoy had threatened to order "British troops from Kenya" to invade Uganda, and that Britain had sent two warships "full of combat troops" to the Kenyan port of Mombasa...
London immediately refuted the charges, pointing out that it had only 38 servicemen in Kenya and no combat troops whatever on the two vessels that were making routine calls at Mombasa. In the House of Commons, Callaghan declared firmly that he would be willling to go to Kampala for discussions but not under duress. "It is utterly wrong," he said, "that a man's life should be bartered against political conditions...
This form of refurbished gladiatorial combat takes place in a favorite terrain of social moralists, "the near future." Rollerball, we come shortly to understand, is a substitute for war, which has been erased from the list of the world's ills. Although problems like famine and overpopulation have been licked too, the world is a pretty chilly place. It is governed by such conglomerates as Energy (located in Houston), Housing and Luxury. Sex is a sorry, mechanical business. The women of the future look like frostbitten fashion models. This may be because they are androids, vessels of mechanical pleasure...
...addition to their daily four-mile run, all of the division's men attend courses in tae kwon do, a Korean version of karate, for three months, and many volunteer for more. They are also required to play some physically demanding sport like "combat football," a game combining the most crunching elements of soccer, rugby and football...
...Liners. Neither mistresses nor the fact that he kept a light on in his room until he was 30 is enough to keep the coward from combat. It is on the battlefield, with some astonishingly evocative camera work, that the director-writer-star sends up Russian literature and never lets it come down. It is as if one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Hasidic schoolboys were managing Tolstoy's estate and Dostoevsky's psychoses. The Brothers Karamazov meet the Brothers Marx; the epic of War and Peace is reduced to a battle of church and shtetl; Boris...