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...looked around the locker room one more time. Still the grim faces and the slumped figures. Still the silence...
...November of 1983, a speech by Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 was interrupted repeatedly by shouts and chants from the audience. Members of the audience threw two balloons full of red dye at Weinberger, but the liquid missed the Secretary. Twelve students dressed in grim-reaper robes stood silently throughout the speech and pointed at Weinberger...
...Viet Nams in Central America, no Cuban missile crises or Afghanistan invasions, no oil embargoes. There have been failures like Lebanon and frustrations like Nicaragua. Yet a significant number of experts believe that even if Reagan does not manage to negotiate a reduction in nuclear weapons, the grim specter of World War III, an image relished by demagogues on both right and left, has actually receded a bit. No small part of that legacy is Reagan's insistence on building a better fighting machine and his courage to use it when American interests are threatened. The young Americans who bombed...
...knows next to nothing of the life familiar to them. To him, America is the Lower East Side of Manhattan plus the abstract, rectilinear shapes of the states on the map he stares at hour after hour. The story that this married couple tells is comic but grim: for the sake of freedom they have given up money, status, craft and identity. They are not only strangers in a strange land, they are becoming strangers to themselves. The U.S. can be a promised land for those who have nothing. For an artist, the promise may be a mirage...
...entire plot must be exposition pocked with explosions of violence. Parker, an itchy director (Midnight Express, Fame) with a bang-on sense of textbook timing, occasionally tries to pump up his flashback talkathon with chase scenes that distract from the film's mood. But he has located a chic, grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep sweating rain, and clouds loom over the bayou like threats written in cigar smoke. Images of mirrors, feet, overhead fans, unknown soldiers and shrouded figures punctuate Harry's waking dreams, inching him closer...