Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battalion staff, some 175 troopers of the Big Red's 28th Infantry Regiment were filing two abreast through the dimly lit rain forest when the jungle suddenly exploded. From perches in trees and camouflaged positions on the ground, 400 or 500 V.C. sent rifle and machine-gun fire into the right side of the U.S. ranks with a fury that was unusual even for hard-fighting Charlie. Some V.C. stormed into U.S. lines carrying 60-lb. Claymore mines in their hands, blowing themselves up along with surprised G.I.s. Such kamikaze tactics, plus the fact that the V.C. dead...
...Point in 1954, Major Donald W. Holleder, 33, raced toward the furious action and rallied a group of troopers to start hacking out a landing zone for medical-evacuation helicopters. Before he could get the area cleared, Major Holleder was cut down by a burst from a V.C. machine gun...
...Chicago Bears 13-10 on a last-minute field goal, and won uninspired victories (27-17, 23-0) in a return match with Detroit and against the fledgling Atlanta Falcons. Two weeks ago, Green Bay suffered through an afternoon with the Minnesota Vikings; at the closing gun, the Packers found themselves on the short end of a 10-7 score against a team that had lost four straight. Worse yet was the way Minnesota won-by beating the Packers at their own ball-control brand of football. The Viking offense completed only two passes, chopped out the yardage...
...much to Samuel Beckett as he does to Shakespeare. R. and G. are transparent replicas of the two tramps who wait for Godot. But where Beckett's dialogue almost expires in pauses of resignation, Stoppard's lines pant with inner panic. Delivered with comic ardor at machine-gun speed, R. and G.'s interchanges combine mental verve with spiritual desolation. It is as if the quiz kids of Wittenberg U. found themselves desperate at flunking in life. R.: What's the matter with you today? G.: When? R.: What? G.: Are you deaf...
Occasionally, Schlesinger betrays the work with anachronistic tricks-slowmotion footage or distorted lenses-and the film's stately pace sometimes grinds to a standstill. As Hardy did, Schlesinger relies on the countryside to give the story its character. Benign or brooding, the huge hillocks and gun-metal skies gradually engulf the people and dwarf even their grandest moments. At last, every object of admiration-including Julie Christie, whose sensual beauty has never been more sensuously photographed-is made to be only a mere and minor part of England's green, unpleasant land...