Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Insistently, Director Jack Gold reflects the quiet terror of military routine in claustrophobic closeups. The soldiers sprawl in their bunks, prickling the silence with wisecracks and gibes to pass the time. When a sergeant enters, the guards are suddenly heel-clicking marionettes, wooden parodies of soldiers, drained of emotion as they parrot back orders. The camera lingers on the faces of Evans and O'Rourke, the Mutt and Jeff of the absurd, one fearful, the other flashing madness from bright blue eyes...
Erik Roth is used to being in the shadow of his roommates Shaw and Keith Colburn, who holds the University record in the half-mile. The quiet, rangy Minnesotan is famous for finding last-minute dates for the Saturday night parties which are rapidly becoming a cross-country tradition. "Elf" puts a lot of thought into his running and wrote a number of lengthy, detailed letters to his teammates last summer...
Arlington's Tom Spengler contributes sarcasm to cross country joke sessions and consistent, unspectacular running to meets. Quiet, serious Howie Foye combines with lanky Max Schweizer and "Palo Alto Fats" Enscoe to form a solid supporting cast of sophomores...
Villages are the places where the tensions are worst, simply because, just like in American small towns, all the people know everyone else's business. The Greek countryside is quiet, but it is the quiet of a graveyard...
...assembled a "Handbook for Doves" yet, but The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam should make the task infinitely easier. It is a quiet book. It does its work methodically and dryly, with a sure but muffled sense for the dramatic...