Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Defense William Perry, "are not tied to which party prevails" in the Kurds' conflict. While a few pundits and rivals will blame Clinton for failing to unify the benighted Kurds or come to their direct aid last week, the Administration smartly opted to keep the U.S. out of that snake pit by refusing to engage Saddam militarily on Kurdish turf. Not only were the logistics of fighting there tough--no use of ground troops, high risk to pilots--the political implications with Turkey and Iran were even tougher. Having failed to mold the Kurds into an effective scourge against Saddam...
...Dole used to be a competent moderate. How did the G.O.P. transform him into a tax-cutting, budget-busting snake-oil salesman?" JAMES E. FREDETTE San Marcos, California...
Some of the plot lines are also creative. In Los Angeles, Snake is captured by the brutal South American revolutionary Cuervo Jones (George Corraface), who puts his prisoners to a deadly test. He brings them to the (ruins of the) Los Angeles Coliseum and has them play an unusual game of basketball, in which they 24 seconds to run the full length of the court and score a point. If they miss a shot before scoring six points, the thousands of cheering armed citizens fire away. If they fail to shoot before 24 seconds have expired, the thousands of cheering...
Viewers can turn for a beacon of moral light to Snake, but the protagonist is violent and moody. Still, viewers can look up to his moral integrity as he sticks to his principles...
Producer Debra Hill also accurately described Snake as a "James Dean anti-hero rebel...