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...obviously the type of movie where you know what will happen before you even step foot into theaters. For some reason, it doesn’t matter. Elf has all the pine trees and tinsel you could want from a Christmas movie, yet unlike It’s a Wonderful Life, it also shows its audience such comic conceits as an oversized man eating spaghetti with pancake syrup, and that makes all the difference...
...dirt his men find a long, half-buried wire. It leads in one direction to where the humvees are parked, and in the other, up a rough slope. Sergeant Allen Grenz begins following the wire. As he crests the hill, Grenz spots a rustle in underbrush. Crouched under a pine are three enemy fighters. It clicks in Grenz's brain that the wire, a blast cable, is leading straight up to the enemy. (Later the soldiers find that the wire was set to detonate five antitank mines buried under the humvees.) Grenz quickly absorbs the danger: one of the fighters...
...Chauvière’s his experiences were as amusing as putting make-up on corpses. One time in the remote village of Pine Grove, La., he had to remove a body from a car that had been set on fire. Chauvière and his team, sweltering in their black suits in the 100 degree heat, cut open the sides of the car with an acetylene torch and crawled into the burnt-out truck...
...threatening beast than the surprised face of a wild boar being roasted over an open fire by a tribe of nomads. It's also because on the way home from that trip, I rewarded myself with a stay in one of my favorite hotels in Malaysia - Lone Pine, a newly refurbished relic of colonial days on the west-coast island of Penang. To the delight of my two small children, the hotel keeps three horses and a small menagerie that includes civets, rabbits, goats, geese and a large turkey named Lurker. Fresh from the wilds, I strode confidently in among...
Participants from Korea, Canada and several states took part in the tournament’s three categories: poom-se, or forms, in which contenders execute a sequence of memorized movements; kyuk-pa, or breaking, which involves 1/4-inch pine boards; and kyorugi, or sparring...