Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs to get a new tank into service. "The good old U.S. Army," says McChrystal, "is going to put out that IFV with every bit of innovation they can, and it'll be a monster." General Volney Warner, who retired last summer from the Army's readiness command, admits this is a problem: "There is always something coming along tomorrow that we ought to hang on a weapon. So we lose control over the development...
Hunched down in concrete foxholes, the officers and NCOs fingered the triggers of their M-16s as instructors stood behind, monitoring the shooting exercise. Then came the command to fire: "Comienzen fuego...
...arranged marriages, concubinage, child betrothal and interference in the remarriage of widows. It reluctantly permitted divorce, but only when "mediation and counseling" had failed and the marriage clearly could not go on. China needed stability and unity, it was reasoned, so couples were called upon to "put politics in command of everything" and stay together. In practice, divorce was usually denied when only one party, wife or husband, wanted it. The new law, which took effect a year ago, is closer to Western statutes: "Complete alienation of mutual affection" is sufficient grounds for divorce, and one party can apply even...
...argument goes like this: every movie is propaganda. Every character is a walking placard-for capitalism or idealism or monogamy or the status quo. Every shot, by its placement and rhythm and duration, is one more Pavlovian command to the viewer. A narrative movie is usually successful to the extent that it obscures these facts, transforms the thesis into entertainment and the placards into persuasive semblances of human beings...
...Masks, a Cambridge based troupe, are clearly adopt at the kind of fluid hijinks and simple, obvious laugh grabbers that keep this stuff bouncing along, and David Zucker, as Dan, is a superb enough clown to carry the evening singlehandedly, much as the old entertainer might have done. His command of face and voice and body are spellbinding enough to focus the silliness. When he is on stage you can forget to wonder what was so interesting about Dan Rice or why all those people are doing these odd things with so little logical excuse all around...