Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prowling a deep Atlantic Ocean trench, Captain Robin White tamps some stray wisps of tobacco into his squat pipe, looking more like a professor than the skipper of an attack submarine. He calculates that he and his men are about as far distant in the presidential command network as one could get. But he holds the lethal stings, and his crew are essential players in the military power game. Captain White knows that...
...command-listening to the language of men and machine that he knows so well. After 19 years of undersea duty, he can automatically feel and gauge a ship's rhythm...
Whatever the speculation abroad, the Kremlin was clearly intent on creating the impression that-his vacation not-withstanding-Brezhnev was still in command. The front page of the Communist Party daily Pravda dutifully printed, under Brezhnev's signature, messages to several world leaders. In a birthday note to Vietnamese Party Leader Le Duan, also 75, Brezhnev hoped that his comrade might enjoy "good health, years of long life and new successes in your vigorous activity." He might very well have wished himself the same...
...Ponderosa looked faked." Stern and Bacon have refreshingly un-movie faces-the one sweet-souled and long-nosed, the other feral, cheeky and forthrightly Irish-fronting outsize talents. But the prize in this gallery is Mickey Rourke, who made a strong impression in Body Heat and assumes command of Diner whenever he is onscreen. With a face as handsome as it is streetwise, and a smile that manages to be both shy and cunning, Rourke has the potential of a young Jack Nicholson. However bright his star may shine, though, he could have trouble finding a movie that offers...
...orchestra comes by his music loving naturally. Growing up in Los Angeles, Slatkin heard his violinist father and cellist mother play chamber music regularly as half of the Hollywood String Quartet. Slatkin on the podium maintains tight control over his orchestra; his performances are marked by precision and a command of musical architecture that permits him to bring off unwieldly pieces like Rachmaninoffs uncut Second Symphony...