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...three sequences stand out. Fuller's dramatization of the attack at Omaha Beach on D-Day begins as a personal affair. Unlike the 1962 epic The Longest Day, which featured a fleet of landing craft the size of a dozen Spanish Armadas ("Every dot on that screen is one of our boats...we're making history"), The Big Red One focuses of five men, none of whom want to be heroes, all of whom desperately want to live...
...Armand watched in bewilderment, two workers tried to revive their fallen colleague while a third noticed the cause of the commotion--Armand's registration envelop. She looked down at the package, up at Armand, down at the packet again and started shaking. "The purple dot--it's him!" she screamed...
Armand snatched his registration package and saw that she was right: a small purple dot adorned the top of the envelope next to his name...
Down U.S. Highway 80, past Wyatt Earp's haunts, past a dreary town called Tombstone, lies the border city of Douglas in Arizona's sparsely populated Cochise County. Signs pointing to Mexico dot Main Street, and an estimated 10,000 of the 15,000 residents of Douglas are Mexican Americans. Most of them have relatives living across the border in Agua Prieta, or "AP," as the locals...
Domestic landmarks dot this battlefield: a cop pulls a protester from the treehouse he had climbed into; a trooper stands guard duty in front of an above-the-ground swimming pool; two men sit in lawn chairs sipping Michelob until the tear gas gets too thick and they retreat to their glassed-in-porch. After the first rush, there seems little hope of gaining the site, but scattered charges at the fence continue. As fast as the grappling hooks are attached, troopers with bolt cutters cut them off the fence, often sending those on the other end reeling backwards, losers...