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...battle-tested Soviet-built T-72, with its devastating 125-mm gun, would never come to pass. Iraq's heavy armor would be kept at arm's length, picked off from a distance by armor-piercing rounds, laser-guided Hellfires and heat- seeking Mavericks fired from the air. Scout planes and helicopters would identify targets, "squirt" them with lasers, and guide helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft in for the kill. "The point is to reduce our casualty rates by staying out of the enemy's range," said division commander General Paul Funk...
...that their pacing is too languid for modern tastes, which is probably true but also beside the point. Early TV was shot live, and a considerable part of its charm -- witness The Honeymooners -- was its ramshackle unpredictability. The Very Best solidly documents Sullivan's skill as a talent scout but gives little sense of the show's herky-jerky rhythm and calculated structure -- one novelty act, two comic spots and so on -- or of its host's weird, looming omnipresence. Solt's deconstruction is a pleasant memory tickler. It could have been more...
...estimated record $370 million in 1990. But the studio's box-office rank slipped from No. 1 in 1989 to No. 3 last year, when Warner had only three modest hits out of 22 released films: Goodfellas, Presumed Innocent and Hard to Kill. This year The Last Boy Scout will be the only Warner film to have a budget of more than $30 million. "We're not giving * up working with stars, as long as we can match the right star with the right material," says Warner chairman Robert Daly. "We want to resist the trap of overpackaging movies...
...Brown athletic department, worried about not filling Meehan Auditorium to capacity (3,100 screaming Bruins fans?) in the students' absence, invited local scout troops, boys and girls clubs and alumni offering free admission for all children. Despite the appeal and a lot of rug-rats, the official attendance was only...
Born in Roxbury, Blacker's earned two degrees from Radcliffe College--a bachelor's in political theory and comparative government and a master of arts in teaching. In the 1950s she worked as a professional for the American Girl Scout Association and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston...