Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the movie's strength comes from the script by Tracy Keenan Wynn (Keenan's son, Ed's grandson). Miss Jane is never merely a symbol or a stereotype. Whether responding shyly to the kindness of a Union soldier, umpiring a baseball game or teasing her earnest young interviewer, she emerges as a human being full of surprising quirks and depths. John Korty, a director whose feature films (Funnyman, riverrun) have lacked emotional fire, here employs his unobtrusive and objective camera to excellent effect. Violence is seen as a constant element rather than a shocking intrusion...
Stone's record even belies somewhat his self-appelation as "counterrevolutionary," probably in the eyes of both radicals and bureaucrats. It can be no comfort to Nixon that Stone is an idealist, not a soldier; and in an age of ubiquitous deception, Stone has proven that truth is radical...
...Nickleby. Dickens' genius for names needs no underscoring, but to see so many of them together is to be dazzled −and then to be struck again by the fact that many are not so much names as implied biographies. What else needs to be said about a soldier called Captain the Hon. Fitz-Whisker Fiercy, or a chauvinist U.S. Congressman called the Hon. Elijah Pogram...
...Meanwhile, Jewish terrorists carried out a continuous assault on British personnel and bases. This desperate strategy succeeded, and "a Jewish state in the land of Israel" was proclaimed by Ben-Gurion at the Tel Aviv museum on May 14,1948, the same day on which the last British soldier left the territory...
...TIMES does not completely submit to the New Journalism but the temptations are there. A potentially informative piece about the Irish Republican Army in the November 30 issue degenerated into a runny first person--"If Seamus killed the soldier, I thought, I would have no choice but to grab the rifle and shoot the other three," writes Richard Boyle, who then fails to explain either factionalism within the IRA or the great number of White Papers and Amendments and Laws to which he constantly refers. The reader learns almost nothing of Northern Ireland, or the intricacies of Irish politics...