Word: nam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearest thing to a central figure, then, was Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, who had organized both arms operations and thought that combining them was a "neat idea." North was a can-do, much decorated veteran of Viet Nam. Though Reagan had fired him from the National Security Council, he had also called him a "national hero." North became an overnight television star when he appeared in his uniform and medals and began his often emotional testimony by saying "I came here to tell you the truth -- the good, the bad and the ugly." North admitted he had engaged...
These hilarious turns are just Adrian's fictional voices. He also does impressions of everyone from Walter Cronkite to Elvis Presley. In between, he keeps making these curious analogies between the position of the G.I. in Viet Nam and Dorothy in the Land of Oz. And, no, one had not observed until Adrian pointed it out just how much the voice of Richard M. Nixon resembles that...
...voices of all America registering shock as solid- seeming ground turns to quagmire. You may be all the way home before you realize you may have seen not just the comedy (and the comic performance) of the year, but just possibly the most insinuatingly truthful movie yet about Viet Nam...
...customer's name will spark a from-nowhere verbal riff. And in the course of an hour's interview, he will miraculously inhabit the skewed brains of two dozen apparitions. Among them: a meat-eating Mahatma Gandhi, Gomer Pyle with a case of VD, Elvis Presley drafted for Viet Nam, Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak and, of course, a singing hunchback. Here is Williams speaking about his role as Good Morning, Vietnam's gonzo deejay: "God, it can't get any more right than this! If this isn't the right part, then there's nothing...
Still, Chun's and Roh's lives ran almost parallel. They were together at a six-month special warfare course at Fort Bragg, N.C., and both saw action in + Viet Nam as unit commanders with South Korea's Tiger Division. In December 1979, after both had become generals, Roh's infantry division came to his friend's aid when Chun overthrew South Korea's ruling clique of senior military officers and eventually took over the country...