Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jodorowsky is similarly humble in the titles he gives to the four sections of the film: "Genesis," "Prophets," "Psalms," and "Apocalypse." "Genesis" begins with a man in black leather (Jodorowsky) riding on a black horse across the desert. A black umbrella shades his head from the sun. Behind him in the saddle sits his naked son, white against his father's blackness. They stop and father says to son in a deep, forboding voice that lets you know he's saying something heavy. "Now you are a man. You are seven years old. Bury your first toy and your mother...
...these experts had spent his life on a desert island, unconditioned by any knowledge of modern art-or, to be fair, by any knowledge of traditional great masters either-and suddenly came back to normal society as a reasonably intelligent man with a well-developed appreciation of beauty, I wonder how many of these paintings he would buy from a Left Bank stall for a dollar apiece...
...Desert Fox" may not have been so foxy after all. According to an impressive roster of military experts appearing on West German TV, World War II Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was far from the brave and brilliant commander Hitler had cracked him up to be. Rommel's understanding of strategy was "slight," said General Ulrich de Maiziere, the Bundeswehr's chief of staff. After studying the archives, the program's director said: "He couldn't work with large bodies, and he panicked when faced with great tasks." Rommel's appeal to Hitler, suggested General Wolf...
...warships of the Royal Navy, with flags flying and all hands on deck, steamed out of Singapore harbor under a cover of 50 planes and helicopters. Shortly before, the British had staged their final parade at Kangaw Barracks-Royal Navy sailors in the lead, followed by Royal Marines in desert khaki and pith helmets, Royal Highland Fusiliers in tartan caps, men of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Artillery. "It is quite an occasion-an historic occasion," said Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burnett, the last head of the British Far East Command...
...E.S.T., on Saturday, Nov. 13, the U.S. entry in the Martian sweepstakes-a 1,300-lb. windmill-shaped instrument package called Mariner 9-will begin a series of crucial maneuvers. Acting on preprogrammed commands sent from the huge, 210-ft. Goldstone tracking antenna in California's Mojave Desert, Mariner's onboard computer will ignite the spacecraft's small liquid-fuel engine for a precise 15-minute "burn," reducing the ship's velocity from about 11,000 m.p.h. to just over 8,000 m.p.h. As it slows down, Mariner will be captured by Martian gravity, thereby becoming...