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...kind of bravado that Duke Wayne loves. At 67 he is a powerful but tamed presence. Since losing a lung to cancer, Wayne has been forced to cut corners to save strength. In recent westerns he has used an apple crate to mount his horse while his veteran double, Chuck Robeson, worked overtime on camera riding...
Throughout the picture Wayne conspicuously neglected both the apple crate and his double. "Christ, she wants to do everything-she can't ride worth a damn and I gotta keep reining my horse in so she can keep up. But I'd hate to think of what this goddamned picture would be without...
...details amassed are awesome. The reader will learn that streetcars in Arnhem were pale yellow; that Lieut. General Frederick Browning, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army (and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier), wore spotless gray kid gloves and sat on an empty beer crate as his glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that...
Customers can choose for their chests old magazine covers, orange-crate labels from the '20s (JUCIFUL), paintings, cartoons, 1940s line drawings of Stars Charles Boyer, Judy Garland and Errol Flynn and any number of messages that invite massage, including a picture of a stallion labeled STUD. And there are Ts for two: couples may wear matching shirts, or proclaim their love with HIS and HERS (or even more visibly in San Francisco...
...soon as the "official patriots" dumped the last crate of tea into the harbor, the People's Bicentennial boats emerged from their hiding spot under the Congress St. bridge and charged the 18th century replica of the British ship "Beaver...