Word: re-enactment
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...strength from its claustrophobic confinement to a horrendous time and place. Haggis' work gains its power from its confident range. The screenplay starts with the Americans on the beaches and the protagonists raising the flag. It follows them on their vulgar war-bond tour (they were obliged to re-enact the flag raising on a papier-mâché Suribachi at Soldier Field in Chicago) and then traces their postwar descent into dream-tossed anonymity. You could argue that the Japanese were the lucky ones: their government and religion foreordained their fate, and they had no choice but to endure...
...some critics, however, the Navy's supercarriers are the Maginot Line of the late 20th century, monuments to military obsolescence. Would-be military reformers question whether enormously expensive supercarriers provide enough bang for the buck. If the U.S. tried to re-enact the Battle of Midway against the Soviet navy's modern cruise missiles and submarines, they warn, the American fleet would wind up like the Spanish Armada--on the ocean floor...
...assisted by members of the cast, joshed Zeta-Jones for her less illustrious roles—in The Adventures of the Young Indiana Jones and her position as T-Mobile’s spokeswoman. They made her speak Welsh, sing alternate lyrics to one of the songs from Chicago, re-enact a scene from Entrapment, perform silly dance moves, and swordfight with former Pudding Producer Nicholas...
JOHN KERRY'S SILVER STAR Regardless of their politics, players at kumawar.com can try to re-enact Kerry's much-scrutinized swift-boat mission. Using satellite images and input from veterans, the site attracts some 300,000 visitors a month to games based on actual military events--à la Uday and Qusay's Last Stand--that are so realistic the U.S. Army is starting to use them for training. GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS As former gang members debate its authenticity on online message boards, politicians and parents' groups condemn the No. 1--selling video game for glorifying street culture...
...short-listed Turner Prize works are turbulent and politically engaged. In Lagos-based Yinka Shonibare's Un Ballo in Maschera, elegant dancers in bright 18th century costumes re-enact a historical regicide to a soundtrack of their own shuffling feet. In The House of Osama bin Laden, Brits Langlands & Bell let you wander through a computer simulation of bin Laden's stark, empty Afghanistan home?war has moved elsewhere, so the piece toys with virtual reality's usual role as the background for a shoot...