Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end the government had still not decided what to do with 5 Spinola, who was stripped of his job but not his military rank. A dashing combat commander who often helicoptered to rebel fighting fronts armed only with a swagger stick, Spinola is admired not only by the 45,000 troops in Portugal but also by both black soldiers and white settlers in Africa. After he left his position last year as commander and military governor of Guinea-Bissau (where he reportedly met in secret with leaders of the rebel forces), troop morale there plummeted...
...through his legs, McMillian and McAdoo dropping in soft 15-ft. jump shots, Smith darting through the defense to score on lay-ups and Heard outmus-cling opponents to grab rebounds, the Braves are averaging 111.6 points a game-the best offensive record in the league. (Statistically, they rank near the bottom of the league, allowing 111 points.) Jack Marin, one of the best shooters in the game, can come off the bench to pour a dozen points through the hoop before the opposition realizes that he's on the court...
This all sounds familiar enough to rank automatically as satire, but the distributors or the director hadn't much confidence in their audience. The opening and closing scenes of Zardoz state with no attempt at subtlety that this movie's tongue is unequivocally planted in its cheek. The bulk of the movie is far less obvious. One suspects the distributor was learning the lessons of Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. But while that film, after being recalled, was left unmutilated with a change only in the advertising campaign, Zardoz has been more clearly, albeit unnecessarily, labeled...
...offensive represents a Chinese military thrust into the area. At the very least, the AK-47 rifles, howitzers and machine guns used by the B.C.P. could have come only from China's Yunnan province just across the border. According to U.S. State Department estimates, the vast majority of rank and file soldiers are ethnic Burmese. But most of the officers and cadres down to the company level are probably ethnic Chinese trained in China. Still, nobody can say for certain that they are regular Chinese soldiers. Along Burma's porous and largely unpoliced border with China...
...went out and bought steaks, everything; stocked up on stuff and said fuck the bills. I had a friend who went back in before me, wrote me and said it wasn't as bad as before; they pay you a lot better and I should get back my old rank pretty quick, and then I'll be making more money and have less expenses; you got a wife and kid you got to take care of them, you know...