Word: pow
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...acted out of misplaced chivalry or affection for his Senate colleague; aides insisted that McCain simply didn't think that the venue - a military academy - and the audience - high school students - was the right place to engage in even a gentle discussion of the differences between the former POW and the former First Lady...
Especially, I think, by Bardem. He's got a totally weird haircut and an eerily calm manner, smiling and soft-spoken. He is also an incredibly efficient killing machine. The shock of his sudden depredations - pow, you're dead - grants the movie some of its very curious rhythm. It has a rather calm and objective air about it most of the time. But whenever Bardem appears, something nasty starts twisting in your gut. He's about as perfect a representation of unambiguous evil as the movies have lately offered. And Brolin is his perfect foil. He's terrific...
...Your main character, Corey Grace, is a former POW who's a Republican Senator and a presidential candidate. That sounds familiar...
...Your main character, Corey Grace, is a former POW who's a Republican Senator and a presidential candidate. That sounds familiar...
...authorizing war." While many senators (including Kerry) parroted bogus stats supplied by Iraq "experts" on the imminent danger Saddam posed to the U.S., Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) counseled caution: "There is no victory in the destruction of one tyrant while breeding 10,000 terrorists." John McCain, a Vietnam POW for five years, voted for the war; but a few used Vietnam as a warning from history. "You're sentencing thousands of Americans to sure death," declared Rep. Pete Stark (D-Cal.). "Some of you did that [when the Senate authorized the Vietnam engagement in 1964], and you can look...