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...terrified soldier digging a foxhole in the frozen earth with his bare hands, just liberated Dutch townsfolk rounding up women who slept with Germans and shearing off their hair. But unlike Ryan, which bared its fictional GIs' souls, Brothers fatally neglects to turn its cast into distinguishable characters. Combat flattens out nuance in personality, and Brothers teaches us little about its soldiers outside battle. An exception is Easy's leader, Richard Winters (Damian Lewis); the fine, Hanks-directed fifth episode explores Winters' trauma after he shoots a German point-blank, but in later episodes Winters reverts to a valiant cipher...
...trash collection. That an Iowa State professor can draw them out about the "dreams and hopes" of their children. That a New Jersey high school teacher can query them on how they cope with paramilitary threats, or that a Seattle grant writer can talk to them about women in combat...
...trash collection. That an Iowa State professor can draw them out about the "dreams and hopes" of their children. That a New Jersey high-school teacher can query them on how they cope with paramilitary threats, or that a Seattle grant writer can talk to them about women in combat...
...take from a Cecil B. DeMille movie. As the red-clad multitude waved banners decorated with the heraldic device of a prancing horse, a tumult of braying horns hailed the king as he sallied forth. But instead of a bloodstained battlefield the crowd filled a different kind of combat zone, the track at the Hungaroring near Budapest, to celebrate the latest victory of Michael Schumacher, monarch of every race circuit he surveys. The homage was fitting for the driver who has dominated Formula One racing for the past seven years. Despite occasional reservations about his tactics on the track, Schumacher...
...trash collection. That an Iowa State professor can draw them out about the "dreams and hopes" of their children. That a New Jersey high school teacher can query them on how they cope with paramilitary threats, or that a Seattle grant writer can talk to them about women in combat...