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Without skipping a beat, Franks spent the next hour explaining that no, pornography is not a right...
...portraying the individual’s struggle to cope with the atrocities of combat, the show—as light-hearted as it could be—delivered a profoundly resonant anti-war message. “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen,” the two-and-a-half-hour series finale, was predicated on an event so traumatic as to drive Hawkeye into a mental hospital. In this sense, “M*A*S*H” was radically ahead of its time—“Good Morning Vietnam” was arguably the first Vietnam...
...sure, the filibuster is not, in principle, a bad idea. In an era of hyper-partisanship and 24-hour news cycles, even a legislative body as inherently deliberative as the Senate is in need of some sort of braking mechanism, for when those built into a system of checks and balances don’t suffice...
However, the directors (Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, and Anand Tucker, in charge of 1974, 1980 and 1983 respectively) work well within these genre conventions. This is not a movie that is meant to shock audiences with an eleventh hour twist—it is instead a horrific journey that slowly unfolds...
...million pesos a pack. A roll of toilet paper cost 100,000 pesos, or $34. Suárez recalled a bidding war that broke out over a transistor radio that finally sold for the equivalent of $12,000. Some of the troops, intent on spending every waking hour looking for money, bought their way out of KP by paying colleagues up to 10 million pesos - or about $3,500 - to replace them...