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...swear to God, this is taken verbatim from the pages of GQ. There are also a bunch of improbable photos: six fashion models in khaki landing a hot air balloon amidst a herd of giraffes; six fashion models waving from on top of a jeep. Breaking down into couples, the six alternately hug, slice meat, look tough, read maps through glasses of Chablis, practice foreplay, wade in rivers, listen to New Wave on a tape recorder, and become good friends with the Masai tribesmen, who obviously know a smart buy when they see one. As the caption reads: "The magnificent...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The Green Hills of Manhattan | 7/7/1981 | See Source »

...problems are hinted at but then ignored and quickly forgotten. The question of women in the military is dealt with in similar manner. The writers limply play with that one by making Murray's and Ramis's girlfriends military policewomen, but they might as well be Playboy bunnies in khaki. Hollywood sensibilities prevail...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Ten-SHUN! | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

...Alexander Haig for his Piltdown treatment of the English language. To those of us who share the general's khaki complexion, Haigledygook is the creative flowering of basic Army jargon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 6, 1981 | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...PRIEST STANDS at one end of the hall, the revolutionary at the other--white cassock and Bible against khaki fatigues and M-1 rifle. The symbols are the obvious ones, but through them A Time of Fire attempts to come to grips with the personal side of revolution in Central America...

Author: By John KENT Walker, | Title: Playing With Fire | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

...funky layered look. "From the chin up he looks like a gangster. From his neck to his knees he seems like an Englishman who has just stepped out of his neighborhood pub into the London fog. But below his knees, where his army pants emerge to meet his khaki sneakers, he looks Chinese. His costume-fedora, trench coat and army uniform-creates the illusion of a man who has been cut in thirds and pasted back together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rediscovering Peking Man | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

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