Word: seasickness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though a pay raise for enlisted men and women is pending before Congress, the thought of shipping out to work for Uncle Sam apparently makes the young crowd feel a little seasick these days. The Navy has as many as 22,000 unfilled jobs, including 18,000 at sea. We asked a few top-gun advertising agencies to throw the admirals a line. (From top to bottom: Goldberg Moser O'Neill; McCann-Erickson Worldwide; Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners; Partners & Simons; and WongDoody, which actually came up with...
...Laurel and Hardy--think a snappier Saps at Sea--except that the Stan and Ollie here are Tucci and co-star Oliver Platt. Tucci, incapable of a gross moment even in the slapstick, seasick exertions of shipboard burlesque, nicely approximates Laurel's high, piping whine as counterpoint to Platt's unctuous exasperation. They are two actors stowed away on a '40s-ish ocean liner, ever scurrying from a British stage star who wants them arrested, gelded, dead. Also onboard are a deposed queen (Isabella Rossellini), a gay tennis player (Billy Connolly), a Teutonic chief steward (Campbell Scott) and a suicidal...
...comes the chaos that challenges patriotic fervor as well as the mind's capacity to comprehend horror--the D-day landing on Omaha: seasick soldiers slaughtered the minute the ramps on their landing boats are lowered; other men clambering over the sides trying to avoid the fire, only to drown under the weight of their packs; the surf turning red with the blood of the slaughtered; some who make it to the narrow beach huddling immobilized yet pathetically vulnerable behind what little cover they can find. A few inch forward, hoping perhaps that being a moving target is safer than...
...seasick. We were on that boat, huddled together, wearing loincloths. It's tossin' and rockin' and shakin' and there's water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink, and the sun's beating down," he says. His face cracks into a grin, a slice of white in a blue-black oval...
...strident, too mean, "too much red meat." He called in a Senate staff member to rewrite . and rewrite. When he rose to address the Concord audience gathered in the historic hall of the state capitol, he opened his binder, stared at the pages for a moment and looked seasick. He turned a page, then another, as though they were out of order and he was not sure where to begin. For half an hour he lurched between anecdotes and themes with no transitions. Scattered throughout were homages to Buchanan's message, when he invoked concerns about laid-off workers...