Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brigade of intellectuals, including Ernest Hemingway, André Malraux, Arthur Koestler and George Orwell, had their lives and work shaped irrevocably by their experiences in Spain. "As a militiaman," George Orwell later wrote in Homage to Catalonia, "one was a soldier against Franco, but one was also a pawn in an enormous struggle that was being fought out between political theories." Albert Camus observed afterwards: "It was in Spain that men learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this...
...ankle are better now, so the Bengals sent their untested rookie back to Massachusetts to work out with a kicking specialist in Milford, which is why Pat McInally, on the morning of the Dart-mouth game, found himself standing in a drizzle outside Soldier's Field, practicing...
...another Harvard-Dartmouth game is upon us. The emotion, the rivalry, the psych will be obvious on Soldier's Field today. For both teams, it's the pivotal contest of the year...
...Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. (How would you portray "groking?" Who would accept a giant sandworm in a serious film?) Some of the finest science fiction on film was specifically written for that medium. Ironically, Ellison himself is responsible for some of the better television screenplays: "Soldier" on Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone, a chilling preview of a war-wracked future through the eyes of a genetically engineered warrior, fleeing his opponents through time travel; and an excellent script for Star Trek, "A City At the Edge of Forever...
...haven't been laid in six weeks," Vic (Don Johnson) announces in the opening scene, and so he and Blood set out to find a victim. Vic, dressed like a Confederate soldier after Gettysburg and toting a carbine, is finally rewarded when Blood senses a female with his telepathic powers. They track her to an abandoned house and defend her against a roverpak in a boring, senseless and long drawn out shoot-out. Quilla June (Susanne Benton) then seduces Vic before he can rape her and manages to lure him to her home downunder. Quilla's community, a new Topeka...