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When Vanunu's trial for treason and espionage began last week, officials tried to shut him up. He arrived at court each day in a van with blacked-out windows and wore a visored motorcycle helmet as he was hustled into a boarded- up courtroom. When he shook off the headgear despite handcuffs, sirens drowned out his shouting. Straps were then added to the helmet to keep it in place. Vanunu will probably not suffer this indignity for long. He is expected to be convicted soon and sentenced to life in prison...
...performances match the tone. Cox and Ferrer are two sides of the same counterfeit corporate coin, and Kurtwood Smith (the most prominent punk) is one baaad malefactor. Weller, as the one good gunslinger in town, manages to convey emotion through the merest slit in his helmet. But the film is less an actors' showcase than a smart, grim satire. The only TV program to be seen is a slapstick variety show. Commercials peddle the 6000 SUX, the car of the future that brags about getting only 8.2 m.p.g., and a holocaust home-video game called Nukem. Giggly anchors read news...
With a resonant baritone voice that rumbles out of a burly figure topped off by a scraggly helmet of gray hair and an untidy beard, Bork commands attention by sound and sight. After 34 years as lawyer, professor, author and judge, this bear of a man has a professional reputation that tends to portray him as straitlaced, rigid, predictable. But there are a few twists. The predictable conservative venerated Socialist Eugene V. Debs as his boyhood hero, and his vote for President in 1952 was for that saint of the liberals, Adlai Stevenson. The man who was raised a Protestant...
North commanded a patrol platoon. He was "tough but fair," says Herrod, and always a stickler for safety regulations. He insisted, for example, that his men buckle their helmet chin straps, when most soldiers let them dangle free. In combat, North's first instinct was to attack, not hit the dirt. Ernest Tuten, who served under North for five months, says, "He had a philosophy that the best way to survive was to minimize your exposure to hostile fire, and the best way to do that was to assault the enemy...
...confusion that the soldiers themselves sense as he weaves them in and out of combat situation. But the confusion of the physical environment has entered the soldiers' souls, reflected best by one young recruit nicknamed Joker, who wears a peace symbol on his jacket while letters on his helmet boldly declare "Born to Kill...