Word: patrioteer
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...This display illustrated not just a junkie's noble path to rehabilitation, but also?and perhaps more importantly for the regime's propagandists?his glorious transformation from soap-dodging Westernized reprobate into a clean-cut Burman patriot. The Burmese military liked to characterize its war on drugs as part of a wider campaign against colonialism and all its nefarious agents. This was spelled out by Khin Nyunt in a speech at Mongla in 1999. He blamed Burma's drug scourge on the "pernicious legacy" of British colonialists, a legacy exacerbated by what he called "the unscrupulous actions of the politically...
...stardom; the genre jumping; the directing, producing and acting credits that have built his brilliant career during his two decades in the movie business. Yet even by his mammoth standards for success, this has been Gibson's year of living large. While last summer's Revolutionary War epic The Patriot wasn't the blockbuster Sony hoped for, it grossed more than $100 million in the U.S., thanks to Gibson's drawing power. He also provided his marquee value and inimitably cocky voice to the role of lead rooster in Chicken Run, his other summer hit. The winning streak is expected...
...Gibson, nodding his head and smiling. "That would be interesting." Gibson is in his office, on a sofa beneath the lineup of defaced posters, and he doesn't look at all like the kind of fellow who can command $25 million a movie, his record-breaking salary for The Patriot. He is wearing the usual--jeans and an untucked short-sleeve patterned shirt that is, frankly, a little loud--and he is fumbling through the tattered leather backpack he always carries, looking desperately for a light. Gibson smokes. He has tried hypnotists and nicotine gum and such, but quitting remains...
...DEVICE TO PREVENT RADIO-CONTROLLED TORPEDOES FROM HAVING THEIR SIGNALS JAMMED. WHAT A PATRIOT...
...Gibson, nodding his head and smiling. "That would be interesting." Gibson is in his office, on a sofa beneath the lineup of defaced posters, and he doesn't look at all like the kind of fellow who can command $25 million a movie, his record-breaking salary for "The Patriot." He is wearing the usual - jeans and an untucked short-sleeve patterned shirt that is, frankly, a little loud - and he is fumbling through the tattered leather backpack he always carries, looking desperately for a light. Gibson smokes. He has tried hypnotists and nicotine gum and such, but quitting remains...