Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bourgeoisie, the sinews of Cliff Finch's power steam from a different coalition of two fairly distinct socio-economic classes-the blue-collar laborers living in the industrial centers of the state and the tenacious Mississippi farmers who eke out subsistence wages on their 100 or so acres of soil. This time the middle-class--the Chamber of Commerce set--has been left out in the cold...
...addition to controlling Kwajalein, Johnston, Midway and Wake islands, the military has reserved substantial acreage in Palau and the Marianas. The highest naval profile is on Guam, where two-thirds of the island-including the best beach, the only lake and the one patch of tillable soil-remains off limits to the population save for 8,800 U.S. servicemen and Pentagon civilian employees...
...Japan, Germany and Spain-have left their ecological mark. Giant African snails brought in by the Japanese as wartime survival food now ooze all over the island. America's legacy is tangantangan, a spindly ground cover planted after the war to prevent erosion. Saipan's soil was saved, but, alas, it seldom is visible since the tangantangan has voraciously rooted throughout the island...
...critic wrote that he looked like Clark Gable left out too long in the sun. He has also been compared to a Japanese bonsai tree, squat and gnarled, but stubbornly rooted to his little piece of rocky soil The images Charles Bronson conjures up are not always graceful or flattering. But they are vivid, just as Bronson himself can be when he is allowed to live-acting is not quite the right word-in a strong action movie, like Hard Times or Red Sun. Rough-and-ready films like these have made Bronson, after an early career strikingly similar...
...family scenes, especially those with Tony and Frank, add little to the movie. They simply set out a few explanatory details of Tony's life, without putting them together. They may show us the soil from which Tony springs, but they could have been done much more creatively or convincingly...