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...movie; it's like being in Viet Nam. Platoon makes you feel you've been there and never want to go back." James Woods, who starred in Stone's previous film, Salvador, calls him an "artist whose vision transcends politics. Everyone from the ex-hippie to the ex-grunt can be moved by Platoon. And his passion isn't bogus -- he doesn't play Imagine at the end of the film to break people's hearts." Brian De Palma, who filmed Scarface from a Stone script, sees him achieving a volcanic maturity in Platoon: "He has now channeled his feeling...
Wanda: Not anymore, Ralph. These are different--they go in the sexual subsection of Interpersonal Realization. For example, this one by Dagmar O'Connor-- How to Make Love to the Same Person for the Rest of Your Life--is not one of those grunt-and-grope books, like The Joy of Sex. As it says on the flap, it's "the book for the Age of Commitment." It's about intimacy and building a great marriage by finding lifelong sexual excitement with your mate...
...week that IBM has yet to offer a way to connect desktop personal computers with the bigger units used by insurance companies, banks and other service-industry giants. Said Carl Williams, manager of information systems at the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency: "It's the mainframes that do the grunt work that runs the company. By leaving them out, IBM fails to address our requirements." Big Blue promises to deliver that kind of system, but declines to say exactly when...
...sometimes klutzy replacement burdened by a certainly klutzy name: the High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). The manufacturer, AM General Corp., calls it the Hummer. No way, says the Army: that rhymes with bummer. It prefers "the HummVee," hardly a name likely to catch on with the average grunt...
...good at it. I really only bought it because I knew I was coming here." Tinny-sounding melodies of various sorts drift out of the compound's tents and fortified holes in the ground all day long. "I was listening to my radio," explained one grunt in his bunker at Post One, "until I got tired of the Arab music." His own tape player was broken. "I was going to put me on some Deep Purple, but I got ketchup on the batteries." Each Marine is permitted one can of beer a day. Many of them have read more...