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...students are a diverse group with varying ambitions: several are married, with children; some, from such regions as Estonia and Latvia, do not speak Russian fluently. As they battled homesickness during their orientation period, many found solace in front of a campus VCR. During a showing of Platoon, the tiny TV room looked like a Tokyo train at rush hour. Erlan Sagadiyev, 21, who served in the army for two years, explained that the Afghanistan war had greatly fanned Soviet interest in the Viet...
...Fussell was a 21-year-old second lieutenant leading a rifle platoon in a division that "had been through the European war so thoroughly that it had needed to be reconstituted two or three times." He was wounded in the back and leg, but not seriously enough to lose his job. After Germany surrendered, the author and his unit were among the blooded troops scheduled to invade Japan. The ferocity of the recent campaigns on Okinawa and Iwo Jima was not lost on those who had survived the crusade against Hitler. Fighting the Japanese on their own turf promised...
...taught the world to play. And losing that game has spurred the United States to search for an alternative definition for our national purpose. This is difficult because our way of life has always been tied to our dominance as a superpower. It's like the line in Platoon when one U.S. soldier in the middle of a Vietnamese jungle says of his nation--we've been kicking ass for so long, I guess it's about time we got ours kicked...
...talked a lot about prophets Tuesday night; the crowd seemed to think of him as one. He named Martin Luther King, Jr. and the character of Elias in the hit movie Platoon as meeting his definition of prophets, meaning "someone who says something unfavorable, jeopardizing their own life." Lee's determined irreverance and outspokeness have never jeopardized his life, but as he admits, "I could've pitched until I was 45 years old if I was just born without a tongue...
Hollywood has found other ways to reap revenue from the burgeoning home- video market. Cassette viewers have started to find commercials preceding their movies: a Pepsi ad on Top Gun, a Nestle's commercial on Dirty Dancing and a Lee Iacocca "tribute" to Chrysler's Jeep vehicles on Platoon. Home- video executives say they are proceeding cautiously with ads, but proceeding. "We'll do more, but only if the movie lends itself to a product," says Alvin Reuben, a vice president of Vestron, which released Dirty Dancing...