Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sponsoring a bill to have contraceptives openly displayed and clearly priced. The men regard this proposal as scandalous, although their own pet projects are as bad or worse. One member fulminates that if God had wanted a permissive society, "he would have given Moses ten suggestions instead of ten command ments." Ably abetted by the antic direction of Alan Arkin, Rubbers is a zany caricature of mandated imbecility. As Brooklyn's gift to liberated womanhood, Laura Esterman is roguishly supple in alternating the abrasiveness of Bella Abzug with the dimpled wiles...
Spiritual Uplift. The movie, which is inveterately confusing, has to do with Jonathan E. bucking the corporate biggies and refusing to retire on command. Director Norman Jewison (Jesus Christ Superstar) and Screenwriter William Harrison champion nonconformity and the glories of individuality against a faceless state as zealously as if they had just discovered these notions writ large on a fiery tablet. Only those for whom these ideas are also a revelation will appreciate the cautions that are strewn throughout the film like pennants waving in the cheap seats...
...Excuse me." A chilly command from above froze me in my tracks. I had wandered smack into the path of a chestnut gelding and its charming 12-year-old rider, who was pert in her manner, precise in her dress and, in my opinion, a pain in the ass. I mustered up a feeble apology and let her trot by. The manure be damned: I raised my eyes and strode straight ahead...
Much of South Korea's military command and control functions are in U.S. hands. All 18 ROK army divisions, for example, are under the operational control of General Richard G. Stilwell, 58 (no kin to World War II's "Vinegar Joe"). Stilwell wears the hats of commanding general of the U.S. Eighth Army, commander in chief of the United Nations Command and commander of U.S. Forces-Korea. The crucial I Corps Group forces are commanded by Lieut. General James P. ("Holly") Hollingsworth, 57, a veteran of World War II and Viet Nam; packing a pearl-handled revolver...
...major obstacles before they can practice their profession. Like other foreign-trained physicians-who now constitute more than one-fifth of the 300,000 doctors practicing in the U.S.-the Vietnamese must pass the stiff requirements of the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), which tests both their command of English and knowledge of clinical medicine. Last winter only 7,000 of the 19,000 foreign doctors who took the exams managed to pass. Those who get by the ECFMG must then take the Federation Licensure Examination (FLEX), which is recognized by 48 states. In many cases, the doctors...