Word: saxonism
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...Hunt. War is madness in this tragedy of military stalemate set in Korea and starring John Saxon...
...Hunt is about a war lover, a man for whom war is not hell but home. It is set in the bleak, blasted terrain of Korea a few months prior to the cease-fire at Panmunjom. Private Endore (John Saxon) is a broody loner. Each night he smudges up his face and like a blackface minstrel of death steals out behind the Chinese lines on a one-man patrol. With snakelike grace, he slithers up to an isolated and unwary outpost guard and slits his throat or plunges a knife into his heart. Then follows an infinitely more chilling ritual...
...accept the terms of war as the norm of existence. When Loomis asks, "What do you feel when you kill a man?", Endore counterquestions, "What do you feel?"; and the cryptic answer establishes a bone-deep difference between the two men that totally belies a similarity of uniforms. John Saxon is excellent as the war lover, and Robert Redford digs beneath his own blond good looks to mine compellingly into the nature of goodness itself. While War Hunt is lean on frontline fighting, one head-punching artillery barrage that lasts perhaps three minutes of screen time stings with a combat...
...Saxon pirates overrun England...
...Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, hit upon something almost as good as gold: using wig powder as a base, he produced Europe's first true porcelain. To keep the secret, Augustus shut Böttger up in a dank castle in the Saxon village of Meissen and told him to produce china without ever letting any single employee learn the entire formula...