Word: itch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their orders to take only defensive actions. "We were trained to be attack troops," says Lance Corporal John Zurakowski, 19, "but all we do here is get attacked." They cheer the Reagan Administration's decision to send over the New Jersey and other offshore firepower, but they clearly itch to settle matters themselves. Last fall, when Marines in Beirut were not allowed to carry loaded weapons, the company mess tent was decorated with a sign reading THE CAN'T SHOOT BACK SALOON. After they were finally allowed to arm themselves last spring, the sign changed...
...story is the same. Gere steals a car, kills a highway patrolman without quite meaning to, while heading for the big city and an up-scale lady. She knows better than to scratch this itch, does anyway, but then betrays her lover to the police, mostly, it seems, to assert the ascendancy of middle-class values over steaming sexual impulse. In the original movie, Jean Seberg played an American stranger in the strange French landscape. Here, of course, the roles must be reversed. France's Valerie Kaprisky plays the uprooted thrill seeker with the same air of being stunned...
...tough," Olson recalls, "I was living with my brother Greg [the team captain] and Greg Britz [starting forward], as well as sharpening the women's team's skates. The itch finally got to me and I went back...
...Rupert kidnaps Jerry, demanding air time for his monologue, and making everyone believe that death is his downside, the movie is irresistible, though a crude coda, which makes explicit the social criticism long since implied, is eminently resistible. But if it blunts it cannot spoil a film that will itch on the memory...
...subtitle of Photography (Rizzoli; 269 pages; $60), an elegant survey of the men and women behind the camera. Unquestionably all those in the book are artists. It is impossible to flip through these pages and not feel delight, wonder, surprise and that baser response to creative expression, the acquisitive itch. The examples range from the early photo realism of Eugene Durieu that imitates portrait painting to contemporary collage by Carel Balth that explores puzzling questions of perception. The text by Jean-Luc Daval, lecturer in art history at the University of Geneva, brings both the technique and the aesthetic...