Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every three minutes. At its peak, these allies ferried a record of 12,940 tons of fuel and food in one day during what they called "Operation Vittles." After ten months the Soviets opened the ground corridors to the West again, but Berlin remained an international, and emotionally American, outpost behind the Russian lines. "Ich bin ein Berliner, "said President Kennedy...
...place where people could make "connections" in the business world, he replied, "We hope it is." However, younger members deny that they made business contacts in the club and in the years of expanding membership, the club seems to have lost some of its reputation as an outpost of the "old boy" network, a place where socializing and climbing the ladder could be accomplished in the same afternoon or in the same conversation...
...times the cost of the original.) "This time," says Margulies, "the network said, 'Name it -you guys are king of the mountain.' " Over $1 million was spent just to rebuild Henning near Los Angeles: during Roots 2, viewers will see the town grow from a dusty rural outpost into an industrialized modern city. Says Margulies: "Finally I had the money to shoot in an honest-to-God cotton field...
...poor slob gets sent to stay with his parents' old buddies, a retired half-English, half-Indian general and his alkie wife, residents of a mostly deserted colonial outpost. The main activity there consists of drinking and watching the jungle reclaim the cottages. Naturally, this, uh, bucolic setting provides time for a lot of introspection, which is what just about everybody does. All of the characters involved get their chance to spin out brief but revealing vignettes about their various problems--sexual, social, existential. Here Alter really struts his stuff; the excellent vignettes display versatility that a young novelist...
Their job is to reoccupy and defend a former French outpost called Muc Wa, which they do successfully until there is an inexplicable change in strategy and they are forced to withdraw into ambush and massacre. The picture is good at catching the absurdity and futility of the operation, but in the long siege-and-retreat sequence, Director Post's failure to rise above simple realism becomes a problem. The scenes here should be spookier and more suspenseful, imparting a developing sense of the madness of isolation in an alien land where the native enemy has all the advantages...