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...flank and the X Corps on the eastern flank of a 60-mile front twisting across the mountains between Yangpyong and Pyongchang. Right from the start the going was sticky and slow. Enemy resistance was light at first, but rain fell heavily, turning frozen paddy fields into treacherous brown slime. Drenched men and vehicles slithered through deep...
...group of films burrows into the mud and slime of war. This is the "war is hell" theme, and it centers around the enlisted man. You don't necessarily see the enemy, but the enemy sees you, and he overhears you in your foxhole, when you talk about home, and what you're going to do after the war, and when will the whole mess be over . . . and then, "BANG," and your buddy is dead. Up until the final scene, the fatality rate in this movie is three buddies to one enemy, but the last scene is really brutal...
...when Columbus sang out. Nor could it have come from a native canoe. Berrill thinks it came from a colony of 1-2 in. sea worms which live among the rocky reefs of the Bahamas and shed their eggs near the sea's surface with an intensely phosphorescent slime...
...Voice of Reason. His wife is the Eternal Hussy: the intelligent emancipated woman, who, while flaying with one hand the dragons her man must kill, still holds fast to the bedpost. There is a visitor to their household who writes modern Gothic novels about an evil spirit named Slime Shindigs, and who can see a little blue light hovering over the house. His function is to play Cassandra, which he does by jamming about the blue light and his damn Shindigs (which, spelled backwards, you see, is almost Myles Standout: Puritanism...
...surprised," said Connally irascibly, "that the learned Senator from Illinois, with all his academic background . . . for the sake of a few, little, nasty soiled votes-little, dirty votes all covered with slime and corruption-for the sake of a few of that kind of votes would advocate a bill such as this...