Word: gasmasks
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...morning, the Jerusalem Post, ran an suprising logo above its masthead: a gas mask. "Gasmask information, Page 2," read the words around a graphic of what looked like a vintage World War I gas mask...
Reagan recalled that gas masks were retainedafter poison gas was outlawed. The StrategicDefense Initiative, he said, was "a gigantic gasmask and maybe...the thing that could bring aboutthe end of nuclear missiles...
...American film released in the past year. But it's subversive with a capital S, so the Academy nominated Lynch for Best Director, but neglected to give him a Best Picture bid. Did the same to thing to Woody Allen's Manhattan, and lotsa others. Hey, Frank! Pass the gasmask...
...Thomas, reportedly spent the night in a gasmask and poncho outfit...
...conclusions and characterizations are, of course, elementary. And the film is, photographically, very crude. Despite all this, the fact that the experience is filmed head-on carries with it a definite educational value, and some visceral impact. (The gasmask test and hand-to-hand combat training sequences are inevitable stunners). Basic Training does something well-suited to television: it presents events in all their surface complexity, with only the barest contextual or human fabric to support or explain them (thus skirting issues of interpretation). The verite approach doesn't make for art, or even sophisticated social commentary. But unless...