Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directors and producers run on a tight schedule, seeing new faces every five minutes. Many, such as "Philadelphia Story" Director Rachel Pulido '89 and Producer Sarah V. Kerr '89, share the actors' anxiety, as they must choose 15 actors from the hundreds they will see this week. They combat their anxiety by "passing crib notes," says Pulido...
...rush to identify and combat racism, we've all become a bit like that man searching in the small, well-lit corner of an otherwise dark room. We search the familiar places even if what we want to find is nowhere nearby. That's what has been happening in Forsyth County, Georgia...
...natural to want to confront groups such as the Klan. But in our zeal to combat the hate and evil they espouse, we must not forget the problems which are more difficult to solve, the evils which are less easy...
...made a terrible mistake. It was on-the-job training: Here's your machete, kid; you cut point. You learn if you can, and if not you're dead. Nobody was motivated, except to get out. Survival was the key. It wasn't very romantic." Each of the three combat units he served in was divided into antagonistic groups, as in the film: "On one side were the lifers, the juicers ((heavy drinkers)) and the moron white element. Guys like Sergeant Barnes -- and there really was a sergeant as scarred and obsessed as Barnes -- were in this group...
...horrors of his season in hell, Stone admits he got what he went for, as a budding artist ravenous for material in the raw: "I saw combat at the ground level. I saw people die. I killed. I almost was killed. Almost immediately I realized that combat is totally random. It has nothing to do with heroism. Cowardice and heroism are the same emotion -- fear -- expressed differently. And life is a matter of luck. Two soldiers are standing two feet apart. One gets killed, the other lives. I was never a religious person -- I was raised Protestant, the great compromise...