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...raping six female trainees under his command 19 times. One issue in his case is whether he used the sheer power of his position as a drill sergeant to intimidate women into submitting to him sexually. But recruiting stations present their own challenges to an Army trying to crack down on sexual harassment. Recruiters and their customers tend to be far from military headquarters, and oversight is minimal. The isolation creates a bond among recruiters that can lead them to count on their buddies to lie for them. In one case, "all of the recruiters in the station conspired...
...instrumentation--string quintet, Floyd Cramerish rolling piano, electric slide guitar--makes the song a pretty little anthology of pop's fine old tendency to synthesize, not isolate, strains of music. Listening in the Great Beyond to Griffith's salving ballads, God might tap His foot. Even Kurt Cobain might crack an enlightened smile...
...worked like a man, like a dog, doing gorgeous stunts in such terrific films as The Heroic Trio, Tai Chi Master and Wing Chun, and suffered torn ligaments, cracked ribs, jangled neck vertebrae and a dislocated shoulder. She was seriously injured in 1995, while shooting Ah Kam. "It wasn't one of my difficult stunts," Yeoh says blithely, "just jumping off an 18-ft. wall. I landed on my head, and my neck went crack! Every muscle, every ligament in my body was screaming. At the hospital they put me in cement to keep me immobile." A month later...
...remember thinking how strange it was that elderly women command such strength and have such a strong image. Then I think about "A Week Like Any Other," and it all makes sense to me. Anyone who has had to endure such a back-breaking schedule would naturally either crack under the pressure or become incredibly strong...
...expected to welcome her to heaven. "Country music, even in the depths, is essentially Christian: it sees a happy ending, if not in this life, then in eternity," says Corliss. "Listening in the Great Beyond to Griffith?s salving ballads, God might tap His foot. Even Kurt Cobain might crack an enlightened smile...