Word: drilling
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...uninhabitable with its fallout) set off in London. The film was co-written and directed by Daniel Percival, a one-man VSDM industry; he also created Smallpox, a chilling mockumentary that aired this month on FX. Dirty War opens on a sight familiar from the news, an attack-simulation drill. The test is a sham--the responders are badly underequipped, and the casualty numbers are fudged--but the Minister for London (Helen Schlesinger) reports success, to "protect" the people from the truth...
...that is the happy part of the movie. Things get darker as a real dirty truck bomb goes off in the city's center. There is far more devastation than the drill projected. The response is chaotic: workers are trapped in burning offices as rescue crews retreat from the radioactive zone. Panic ensues, and the heroism and derring-do that follow only remind us that the real time for lifesaving action ended long before...
...Luther King Day is a public holiday in the U.S. (or "a day on, not a day off," as rights activists still proclaim). The centerpiece of the celebration in L.A. is the spectacular Kingdom Day Parade, which has been held for the past 20 years. Comprising dozens of floats, drill teams, marching bands and more than a few celebrities, the parade aptly commences on Martin Luther King Boulevard, near Crenshaw, and snakes for some two miles before finishing at Western. If you're planning to participate, note that streets along the route are closed to vehicular traffic from...
...Fall afternoonin New Orleans, some two dozen padded, helmeted 14- and 15-year-olds huddled on an inner-city ball field for practice. During one drill, a lineman lurched at the running back, nipped his jersey and bear-hugged nothing but Big Easy air. The coach blew a whistle in disgust and stomped toward the offensive tackler. "When are you going to hit him?" barked Tomaris Bolds-Jackson, 38, a mother of four. "You have to hit him. You're playing football...
Alice Ronchetti and Karen O’Brien, his union representative, said his troubles at the laboratory go beyond the accusation of the stolen drill...