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...have nagged the nation for nearly 28 years, rousing emotions, inciting speculation, provoking arguments. It was probably inevitable that Hollywood would step into this minefield sooner or later -- and probably inevitable that the man leading the charge would be Oliver Stone, filmdom's most flamboyant interpreter of the 1960s (Platoon, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July...
Pitching is always a key to winning in softball, and the Crimson are blessed with two fine hurlers this season. Sophomore Christine Carr and junior Julie Fromholz platoon on the mound for Harvard and are both finding success thus...
Stone has relived the Vietnam War in two bold, woozy melodramas, Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July; his next movie is about the assassination of J.F.K. In subject and style he is the last director of the '60s, finding truth in rage, beauty in psychedelic sunsets, politics in self-destruction. His movies make people edgy, and that's a good thing. But this time Stone is a symptom of the disease he would chart. It is folly to lavish $40 million of somebody's money (that's $10 million a Door!) and 2 hr. 15 min. of your...
...press have free rein to cover a war pretty much as it sees fit." International editor Karsten Prager, who as a correspondent spent much time in the field during three years in Vietnam, agrees. "Newsmen had direct access," he says, "unlike what is happening now. You walked with a platoon or a company and covered things on the ground, not from headquarters." That kind of reporting gives the most accurate perspective on the drama and despair of war. It is surpassed only by the much more satisfying job of reporting the peaceful resolution of any conflict...
...idiot. I don't want to die," continued Jones, who would command a platoon of forty men if sent to the area. "But I'm excited about joining the Marine Corps and I'm looking forward to doing my duty. I can't think of a better management and leadership experience...