Word: iwo
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DIED. RICHARD JAECKEL, 70, movie tough guy; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. A real-life Marine during World War II, Jaeckel took on the Japanese in the Sands of Iwo Jima. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1971 for his portrayal of a logger in Sometimes a Great Notion...
...current World War II icon, the Iwo Jima memorial, won't do. For all its majesty, it remains a memorial not to World War II but to one branch of the U.S. military. Its official name, in fact, is the Marine Corps Memorial...
...about what I say." He doesn't fake well; Dole has consistently been reluctant to use a TelePrompTer, which lets him pretend to riff when he's actually reading a speech. Nor will he take advantage of symbolism that he finds sacred, like posing for campaign shots at the Iwo Jima Memorial. He won't even wear casual clothes when a photo op requires it. "This is serious business," he told his media adviser on a cold winter morning in Iowa, refusing to wear a checked work shirt. "People are choosing a President." Dole is a guy who doesn...
...endless chatter, where all the clients' heads are clocks whose hands have stopped for eternity at 10 p.m.--has its affinities to Hopper's Nighthawks. Even the silver G.I.s in Kienholz's great antimilitarist piece, The Portable War Memorial, 1968, have a spectral Hopperish sadness as they raise the Iwo Jima flag on a patio table...
Curiously, for a man who prides himself on his unsentimentality, Vidal shades his entire story with the romantic memory of a love affair he had with a classmate at St. Albans. He suggests that blond, sunny, athletic Jimmie Trimble, who died in a foxhole in Iwo Jima, was his Rosebud, his one and only, his Platonic other half. As tender as he is about Trimble, so is he icy about the rest of his romantic attachments (he matter-of-factly states that he'd had 1,000 sexual liaisons by the time he was 25), as well as about most...