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...setting is a mental sanitarium. The head office is guarded by a maximum-security chain-link fence suggesting a concentration camp; sheaves of yellowing files conjure up a strangulating bureaucratic maze. Roote (George Martin), the government official in command, is a slightly dotty ex-colonel given to gung-ho sloganizing, lapses of memory and bouts of paranoia. His second in command, Gibbs (Richard Kavanaugh), lusts for Roote's post, is as obsequiously duplicitous as lago and possesses the mental cast of a Nazi stormtrooper. Miss Cutts (Amy Van Nostrand), the head nurse, is one of Pinter's Venus...
...underlying reasons for the differences in the levels of sports programs lie in American attitudes about competition. Ezeji-Okoye, who attended a school in England which had a group of American and Canadian students, notes that "it was always the North Americans who were far more competitive and gung-ho about sports they were always much more geared toward doing their best in every meet...
SCOTT comes the closest to reality in this movie, playing the nutso commandant. Melding two of his better characters from previous films--gung-ho Gen. Buck Turgidson of Dr. Strangelove and bloodthirsty Gen. George S. Patton of Patton--Scott portrays a feeble ex-warrior who fails to make the crucial distinction between parade-ground bluster and actually killing for a principle. He doesn't intend to send the youngsters on a suicide mission, but he is the first one to talk about footholds and not giving in without a fight. Before things get out of hand, Scott interprets Bache...
...draws a deep breath and continues. "People were going to Nam to die against their will. The Marines, we were all so gung-ho at the time. Now I ask, 'Why were we there? What were we fighting for?' I hated deserters then. The Marines lied to us. They told us it was a war of outside aggression. Now, I know it was a civil war, and there would have been a lot less death if we hadn't been there...
...graduate of Yale, Daly, 29, worked for the Village Voice, then the News, where he quickly distinguished himself as a gung-ho reporter. Early last year, he was rewarded with a column. Questions had been raised about his reporting in the past, News Managing Editor Bill Umstead told TIME, but "Daly had always defended his stories to my satisfaction." Said one friend: "He was under a lot of pressure. He was trying to hit a home run every...