Word: duke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berets. This obscenely chauvinistic, simpleminded film, which starred movie war veteran John Wayne (who also served as co-director), tried to cast Vietnam in the heroic mold of the old World War II movies. It didn't work, of course, because Vietnam simply was not World War II, the Duke's exhortations notwithstanding. Altman recognized this, and M*A*S*H*, with its loose, irreverent style, reflects this new vision. The militaristic, patriotic, aggressive, by-the-book Regular Army types who were virtually deified in traditional American war movies appear in M*A*S*H* as incompetent, cowardly, idiotic hypocrites...
Still, because of the usual liberalism of Massachusetts Democrats and the conservatism of Dukakis' opponent, Edward J. King, 53, a former center with the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts, most politicians figured that the Duke would...
...course, I will not allow readers to wallow in provincial ignorance by failing to disseminate relevant information relating to the fortunes of great academic institutions such as the University of Wisconsin or Duke...
...cheering started up in the tent a quarter of an hour before King made his entrance. "Dump the Duke," they chanted, although the just-announced concession speech made that sentiment a bit dated. Then a touch of originality: "The Duke is dead, long live the King," on and on for a solid seven minutes--good, lusty, raw-throated cheering. Then the man struggled into the tent and the blood frenzy began, an animal roar on the verge of losing control, the disbelief and delight and confusion all muddled together, losing all sense. The band switched from its 14th rendering...
...members of a group of self-proclaimed "crazies" in the legislature, will never forget the destruction Dukakis wreaked on the state's human services budget in the name of austerity. In the same way, angry taxpayers who voted for Dukakis against then-Gov. Francis W. Sargent because of the Duke's "No New Taxes" pledge on election eve, will never forgive him for the massive tax increases that Dukakis found inevitable six months later...