Word: ghosts
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...Poppy is depicted as having the strength to use U.S. military might to push Iraqi troops out of Kuwait and the wisdom - not the weakness - to stop short of Baghdad. Stone seems to admire him more than any other President he's depicted. (In JFK, Kennedy was a hallowed ghost figure.) His Bush Sr. might be a Lyndon Johnson who somehow got the country in and out of Vietnam with a win and few U.S. casualties. This 41 - this war hero, this fearless leader - could never have been impersonated on Saturday Night Live by Dana Carvey...
Both campaigns have evoked the ghost of Harry S. Truman, a salt-of-the-earth fellow whose honesty and common sense allowed him to govern in Washington without being corrupted. So I began my trip near the leafy street corner in Independence, Mo., where Truman had his home. I strolled the downtown sidewalks along which the former President took his morning constitutional after he returned home from building the postwar world. In a shop near the courthouse, I asked the woman behind the counter what she was thinking about the election. She replied that she was a lifelong Republican...
...back as though it had been yesterday.And he was here in Italy. She knew it with as much certainty as if the painted figure before her were not oils hardened into ridges upon a canvas, but flesh equally hardened by athletic prowess. It was as though a vital, palpitating ghost inhabited the great hall with her. She felt his mouth on her cheeks, the delicate yet rough line of kisses along her bare arm, her shoulder, her decollatage.It was true, what he had said in the stable that day. He was almighty. He would call her now, call...
...burning on the island this time. Fires are forbidden. There is a dusk-to-dawn curfew and residents are warned to get shots for tetanus and hepatitis before returning. Downtown, with its brick and ironwork Victorian-era buildings - once dubbed the "Wall Street of the Southwest" - is a ghost town. The only sound is the low howl of dehumidifiers sucking moisture out of bank buildings and churches...
...Your role (as a Pentagon liaison) in your next movie Green Zone is a departure from your two films this year (Genius and Ghost Town). Why did you choose the role? Paul Greengrass asked me to read the book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, which is kind of just a backdrop for the movie. It's about the early mobile exploitation teams and the soldiers, including Matt [Damon], who go in to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and don't have a lot of luck. I think what Paul was attracted to was all that Americanism integrated...