Word: platooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This first novel, which relates eight days in King's life, contains enough action-both lethal and sexual-to flesh out a sociological study of Harlem, and enough profanity to outfit a platoon of Marines. Shane Stevens has invented an idiom for his swaggering teen-agers that gives pungency to King's occasional meditations. On school, for example: "Everyone shouting and screaming and nobody care about what they is going on. But at least it somewhere to stay away from when they make you go." And on the purpose of fighting gangs: "In this bizness you got have...
French assistants lived with the platoon of Negro West Point Lieutenant Joseph B. Anderson, 24, recording the days leading up to Operation Irving on the central coast of Viet...
Until now, that is. All these human vignettes, and many more, are part of a remarkable new 80-minute Viet Nam documentary. Titled The Anderson Platoon, the program suggested a greater understanding of what the U.S. is doing in Viet Nam than anything yet seen in France. "Politics don't interest me," says Producer Pierre Schoendoerffer. "I didn't want to modify anybody's opinion about the war, but only to show them how it was being fought...
...white soldier holding the hand of his Negro buddy who has been wounded tells of the brotherhood of battle without words. The mood is enhanced by rock 'n' roll and blues music. In one sequence, Nancy Sinatra sings These Boots Are Made for Walkin' as the platoon trudges through a swamp...
Schoendoerffer was deluged by complimentary phone calls after the showing of his documentary on the Cinqcolonnes à la une program, France's leading news show. U.S. TV officials who have seen it consider The Anderson Platoon the best documentary of the war to date. It may soon be shown on a U.S. network...