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Very few of Taiwan's inhabitants fear an actual invasion from the mainland. China currently lacks the landing craft and other military equipment for such a move. Taiwan's armed forces of 474,000 men, including a well-trained air force of 316 combat aircraft, 165 of them F-5A/E interceptors that it has built under U.S. license, would make a direct assault on the island extremely costly. Furthermore, the U.S. is maintaining the right to continue selling defensive weapons to Taiwan. Privately, however, the island's officials worry about the possibility of a Communist submarine...
...stunt work for her latest film, Sunburn. As Model Ellie Morgan, hired to help Private Eye Charles Grodin investigate an insurance swindle in Acapulco, she steers a car at breakneck speed through a bullring and fights off a gang of thugs under water. During the filming, stunt men got their signals crossed and pulled Majors beneath the surface before she had secured her breathing tube, nearly drowning her. But with it all, she is delighted at 31 to submerge herself for the first time in a serious movie career. "I'm a late developer," says Majors. Photographers...
Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer: "The loneliness of great men is part of their ability to create. Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness...
...embodied by the movie's two principal characters, Michael (Robert De Niro) and Nick (Christopher Walken), steel-mill workers from Clairton, Pa., who go off unquestioningly to fight for their country. In the film's first hour, set at home, Cimino presents his buddies sympathetically as average men with traditional values: their lives are defined by work, family, church and a love of sport. What happens subsequently to Michael and Nick in Viet Nam is a paradigm of what happened...
...metaphor for a war that blurred the lines between bravery and cruelty, friends and enemies, sanity and madness. Unfortunately, other conceits in The Deer Hunter damage the film. A first-hour wedding ceremony, designed to establish the tribal rites of Clairton, is absurdly repetitive. The portentous sequences of the men hunting deer back home turn a literary device into a crutch...