Word: drums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cast in the "American" style, but darkened by German guilt feelings about the country's recent past, the film becomes a kind of German Vietnam movie. But unlike Fasbinder (in The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lili Marleen), Schloendorff (in The Tin Drum), and Syberberg (in Our Hitler), director Wolfgang Petersen avoids discussing the complexities of the political, psychological, and cultural roots of the "German catastrophe" and presents, instead, a soldier's-eye view of the war. These boys do not see the battle as the culmination of Romanticism and Wagner or as the result of contradictions of the petty...
Campaigning in the provincial town of Zacatecoluca last week, Duarte was doing his best to drum up enthusiasm for the election. Although he may well be the country's best political orator, he was guarded and defensive as he tried to explain why the junta had not brought either peace or prosperity to the country...
Contrats also pervade the music, Calm, harmonious tunes are followed by screaming, distorted ones. Melodic, lush guitar textures give way to feedback and a multitude of strange noises. The title track, for example, begins with a chaotic intro of power chords and drum rolls; then feed-backing guitars enter producing a sound akin to the horn of a steamship...
...serious practitioners of the art of insult, the British probably dismiss Haig's testy comment on Carrington as hardly in the same world class as the invective of Lloyd George, who said that Winston Churchill would "make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises"; of World War Fs Field Marshal Haig that he "was brilliant to the top of his army boots"; of Lord Derby that he was "like a cushion who always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him." Devastating ad libs and insults...
...Cornell fan with a drum stick and a cowbell tries to rally his crowd (the Cornell fans were approximately 500 in number) and his team. Suddenly a deafening clanging emerges from he Harvard student sections, overriding all other sounds in the rink, especially that of the cowbell. The Cornell fans cringe behind their newspapers. The Harvard Gong has made its debut appearance