Word: sargeants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whether to portray Pyle as a comic figure or as a troubled man. His sudden psychopathy is barely convincing, because Pyle's getting his act together would have gotten the drill sergeant off his back. Kubrick seems slightly off the mark in portraying the tyrannical nature of the drill sargeant. The sergeant at times seems patriotic to the point of ridicule--tough so he can make his men great in the name of his country--but when he invokes the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald as a great marine worthy of emulation, Kubrick makes the character appear aimlessly psychopathic...
...horror film. The group of Marines includes Vasquez, the Hispanic tough macho lesbian, who ends up sacrificing herself for the rest of the crew; Hodgson, a dumb, smartass soldier whose terrified vulnerability in the face of the aliens makes him human after all; and a mean drill sargeant with a dry wit who has one of the film's greatest lines. Cameron manages to work in just enough comic relief to keep the audience from breaking down under the strain of intense fear...
...nutshell, the storyline focuses on Detective Sargeant Stanley White (Rourke), a Vietnam Vet-turned policeman propelled by a Ramboesque obsession with the American military failure in Southeast Asia and a steely determination to flush out the undesirable element from what he regards as a cesspool of Sino-American corruption--New York City's Chinatown...
...last year's vote, the two student members of the board and Professor Richard Parker voted to divest, while Vorenberg, Sargeant and Professor William D. Andrews opposed divestiture...
Before Tuesday's meeting Sargeant contacted the members of the board and found that "more than a majority of the Trustees share the opinion that, under the special circumstances governing the Review, the views of the student editors of the Review as expressed in their 1983 and 1984 petitions should be recognized," according to memorandum distributed by Sargeant at the meeting...