Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of films burrows into the mud and slime of war. This is the "war is hell" theme, and it centers around the enlisted man. You don't necessarily see the enemy, but the enemy sees you, and he overhears you in your foxhole, when you talk about home, and what you're going to do after the war, and when will the whole mess be over . . . and then, "BANG," and your buddy is dead. Up until the final scene, the fatality rate in this movie is three buddies to one enemy, but the last scene is really brutal...
Western influence-both as progress and as ferment-is most conspicuous in the capital, Teheran (pop. almost 1,000,000). Some sections have wide boulevards and modernistic buildings; in others, narrow streets run between mud-brick hovels. Cadillacs and ratty taxis run through swarms of wailing peddlers...
Next day there was a thaw, gooey mud and another sharp fight for ancient, ruined Suwon. After a go-minute battle, the Chinese were driven out and the town pronounced "secure." Suwon itself was not an important objective; the Americans just wanted to deny it to the enemy as a staging base...
...moved from Portonaccio to a high-priced apartment in the center of Rome. One-man shows in Paris, Stockholm and Manhattan earned him an international reputation. The reputation is based largely on his drawings rather than on his paintings-the paintings often have the color and texture of dried mud...
...When the mud on the 500-acre site got so deep that supervisors could hardly walk or drive around, Colbert had a typical Texas solution: hire 25 horses from a local riding academy. When morale sagged in the long months of endless construction and production problems, Colbert said to his staff: "If I hear anyone here say this plant won't be built,' this engine won't run, this ship won't fly, or this plane won't win the war, I'm going to ask for his resignation immediately." When an assembly line...