Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terrorists could strike with an explosion 10 times the size of the one in Riyadh. As General J.H. Binford Peay, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, implied, the terrorists changed the rules. They showed "exorbitant" capability, Peay said, "in terms of a blast that you don't normally see in the normal kinds of terrorism." Still, it was common knowledge that the airmen were vulnerable, living in apartments facing a public parking lot less than 100 ft. away. "If anything was going to happen, says Senior Airman Dan Williams, who lived in Building 131, "it was going...
...protect Saudi Arabia from an external threat, not an internal one, yet that is what they fell victim to. On Thursday the bodies were flown back to the U.S. That same day, pilots from the 58th Fighter Squadron who lived in Building 131 returned home, having completed their normal 90-day tour of duty. "Their 90 days was up," said Major James Stratford. "They left. But some of them went home in coffins...
Gangly Gerald Conlon is a young Northern Irishman going through all the normal foibles of adolescence--stealing scrap metal, starting riots, having his kneecaps threatened by the IRA--until his father ships him to London to 'straighten out'. When a series of IRA bombs terrorizes the city, Gerry is one of four Irishmen wrongly accused, tortured, railroaded, and imprisoned by the nasty Brits. Gerry's da is imprisoned along with Gerry, and later dies in jail, all of which makes for excellent drama and is a great showcase for Lewis' mesmerizing intensity...
...their caveman ancestors, but this atavism only seems to make them resentful. My dear brother, for example, a man whom the concept of political correctness persistently eludes, refers to dumb women as "D cups." Or consider the appellation "bimbo," with its implication that a great bod is incompatible with normal intelligence. Possibly also relevant here is the masochistic T shirt that says SPEAK SLOWLY AND CLEARLY; I'M A NATURAL BLONDE. The central fact to cling to in that fitting room is that in the post-Pleistocene epoch, the body counts for less and less. Once, just a few decades...
What's probably most frustrating about the movie is that it lacks any sort of real resolution whatsoever. It appears that after a final heart-to-heart with Broderick, Carey will mend his ways. Broderick's life will come back to normal and everyone will live happily ever after. Then Broderick, savvy to the "Chip Douglas" trick, asks for Carey's real name, The Cable Guy replies, "Ricky Ricardo" and does a quick impression--which could just as easily have been of Pee Wee Herman--before being flown off by the paramedics, one of whom he tries to stalk...