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...outer space of conventional science fiction. Instead, he began to explore the "inner space" of everyday culture that was being shaped by consumerism, T.V., sex and celebrity - most of it American. The psychotic hero of his provocative, experimental novel The Atrocity Exhibition (1969) stumbles through chapters like Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. and You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe. The character's own sense of reality seems to crumble along with the last vestiges of novelistic realism...
...PROBLEMWright-Swadel, the OCS director, says that throughout his time as a career adviser students have factored company reputations into their employment decisions.“In the 60s and 70s, companies like Dow Chemical were an issue for students because of their involvement with making napalm in Vietnam,” he says. And “major petroleum companies like Exxon have their environmental problems, like the Valdez incident,” he adds, referring to a massive oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989.But moral concerns are often short-lived.“I would...
...directed Training Day and King Arthur, knows his male audience, and knows that they like how-to movies on survival against all odds. So he spends plenty of screen time showing Swagger at work: cauterizing his own bullet wound, driving backward off a bridge into a river, planting napalm (a nice Vietnam touch) in an enemy compound. Indeed, the film is best at giving instructions in the assembling and detonation of weapons of movie distraction. And Wahlberg, so muscled up he looks as if he's ready to explode, is serious and committed to the genre. We happen...
...ridiculous classification—while the actually talented Derek Trucks is cited as a slide guitar luminary. In the fine print, Jack White is described as a “crawling king snake,” praised for his “fusion of prewar blues grit and Stooges napalm,” and (falsely) likened to the legendary Blind Willie McTell...
...Bomb the village, kill the people, Throw some napalm in the square, Do it on a Sunday morning, Kill them on their way to prayer. Ring the bell inside the school house, Watch those kiddies gather round, Lock and load with your two-forty, Mow them little motherf---ers down...