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...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...
...heroic impulse among all these actors, and in fairness it must be said that the fault does not lie entirely in the stars. Everyone knows this is not a particularly heroic historical moment. It is difficult to find many real-life heroes to identify with, and this thins the soil out of which larger-than-life movie figures can be expected to grow. Beyond that, not nearly so many movies are being made nowadays, so there are fewer opportunities for the kind of relentless exposure that built the great star careers of the past. Finally, the movie audience...
...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...
...must pull back now, the white flight to suburbia, all fit together into one unhappy picture. Understanding Brooklyn, where the battleground is big, the players easy to spot and the conflict starting early, helps one to understand how the foul weed of neoconservatism flourishes in soil once overgrown with liberal begonias...