Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...display of excellent musicianship. The costumes are almost humorously incomplete. Courtiers and musicians wear long robes and sometimes tights, but polished black shoes, horn-rimmed glasses and short haircuts keep the costumes from seeming really medieval. When Daniel is thrown to the floor to be dragged off to the pit of lions, we can see loafers and white blue jeans underneath his white robes. He could have at least worn sandles. The lion's costume was perhaps the most ludicrous of all. Wrapped in curling yellow fur, he looks more like a toy teddy bear than a snarlng beast. When...
Miles and Co-Driver Lloyd Ruby to cover each lap in exactly 2 min. 4 sec., averaging 110 m.p.h., while the other Fords maintained a slightly slower pace. At that rate, Shelby figured, each of the Mark Us would need new front disc brakes during the race. So his pit crews practiced until they could change both brake units and four tires, fill the sump, pump in 42 gal. of gas and clean the windshield...
...destroy a village of 6,000 people, but Director Mann, curiously enough, makes a greater issue of blowing up a ferryboat. Since no movie can ultimately create real suspense about who won World War II, the only pertinent question becomes How. Tele-mark's answer is to pit Douglas and his right-makes-might pals against a Nazi elite force so inept that its final defeat looks suspiciously like a snow...
...patrol a defense perimeter, detect enemy booby traps and set out their own, establish listening posts; they spend 29 hours practicing night defense and are taught to catch wild animals to supplement their C rations. They also see a full-size Viet Cong prisoner stockade, including a solitary-confinement pit, and learn how to evade their captors' questions. Even at night, G.I.s in the main camp are liable to be attacked by "terrorists" from Vinh Hoa. Above all, they are taught to be on the alert against enemy ambush. Says Sergeant Louis A. Peterson, a Viet Nam veteran whose...
...claim, today's "shadows are deep," it is time not to "address the heavens," but to address mere men possessed by "philosophical" visions and patriotic slogans, to demand that men analyze what they are arguing about and perhaps dying for. Those bits of language that pit man against man may cover broad areas of agreement. We don't need more answers. We need better questions...