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Wolff's time is the '70s, a decade of convalescence, navel watching and delayed-stress syndrome. In Soldier's Joy, one veteran of the lost war tries to get another to surrender a rifle after he threatens to shoot himself. The would-be savior complains about the confusion "back in the world," vet talk for home. But he too is deeply disturbed. "You think you've got problems," he says to the distraught man. "There's nothing wrong with you that a little search-and-destroy wouldn't cure...
...desire for action is not confined to the West. In 1983 an antiterrorist squad was flown from Moscow to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, after a local group killed seven people aboard a jetliner. Three of the hijackers were killed in a shoot-out and five others captured. Four of the survivors were sentenced to death...
...possible for elevators to rise, light bulbs to glow and lightning to snake across the sky. Gravity holds chairs to the floor and planets in their orbital paths. The strong force binds together the protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus. The weak force causes subatomic particles to shoot out of the nuclei of atoms during the radioactive decay of such unstable elements as uranium...
...fact, the company plans to make about 20 films next year, more than any of the major studios. Several of them will be either gory shoot-'em-ups like the current Death Wish 3 or comic-book films like Captain America and Pinocchio--the Robot. Golan hopes that one of their films, Delta Force, which comes out next month with Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin, will be Cannon's first $100 million grosser. The script has terrorists taking over an American airliner and Norris and his Delta Force flying to the rescue, spraying bullets everywhere. The plot sounds very much...
...leave the old boy here, several happy hours still ahead of him. He will never be able to say he flew the thing, but for the moment, in his mind, he can at least point and shoot with the best, to say nothing of his prowess with the pickle button. --By Gregory Jaynes