Word: fall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last council meeting of the fall semester, the new ad hoc committee will make a recommendation on how to utilize the recently found funds...
...Higginbotham has had an operation and will be out for the fall semester to fully recover," the e-mail message read...
Sounds good so far. The audience expects high tech and will probably let slide the fact that Todd is unconscious but remains uninjured after his stay in the garbage ship and the 500-foot fall he and the rest of the dumped garbage experience. The only visual or special effects worth mentioning, though, are the few panoramic shots of the barren planet littered with old scrap iron, cars and retired aircraft carriers. On a side note, those expecting chemistry between Todd and Sandra (Connie Nelson) should look elsewhere, Soldier gets an R rating solely because of old-fashioned graphic violence...
...movie focuses on more than the soldiers. The people who rescue Todd after his fall from the garbage carrier are unlucky colonists who crashed on the planet years ago. Stranded, they have managed to build a small community, using as raw materials only the things that others have discarded. So just as the settlers have found use in others' garbage, so also do viewers see that both Todd and the colonists have worth, despite being tossed aside by society. The film leaves little ambiguity regarding its interpretation, unless one is confused by Soldier's apparent attempt to paint the Darwinian...
...develop free speech guidelines, expressed the committee's view that it should be within the authority of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, to remove a banner hung from the windows of Holworthy Hall that read, "Some group, get out." Others might argue that such an action should fall under protected free speech...