Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city cheerleaders, and they run through their number with artless urgency, as if they realize that this is their one fluky shot at stardom. They sing of the idealized male, who needs both adoration and protection: the angel baby, the rebel, the leader of the pack, the playboy, the soldier boy, the fine fine boy, the boy I'm gonna marry-he's sure the boy I love...
...ambitious; both pulled the music directly from their own up-tempo urban experience. But the writer-producers were white, most of them, and in control; the performers were working-class girls, black or white, and in thrall. With six Top Ten singles (including Will You Love Me Tomorrow and Soldier Boy), the Shirelles expected that the "trust fund" of their earnings would be substantial but, as they told Betrock, when they turned 21 they learned that the money was not there. Some groups, like the Crystals with He's a Rebel, would find their name on a song they...
...Soldier's Play. Charles Fuller's drama of tensile strength about a World War II black outfit stationed in Louisiana that gets involved in a racial whodunit. The central character, brilliantly portrayed by Adolph Caesar, is a black Regular Army noncom who is as tough as bully beef...
...during a crucial budget session in September 1981, when many White House aides were urging Reagan to cut defense funds, Weinberger simply presented charts illustrating the various proposed budgets. The one with Weinberger's numbers was labeled REAGAN BUDGET, and showed a figure of a brawny soldier hoisting an automatic weapon. The alternative was called OMB BUDGET, and pictured a puny man with a small rifle...
...fungal poisons known as mycotoxins, the key lethal ingredient in yellow rain. At a press conference that followed Shultz's statement, State Department officials showed one of two Soviet gas masks that they said had been captured in Afghanistan. One taken from the head of a dead Soviet soldier, the other obtained clandestinely in Kabul, each apparently carried traces of mycotoxins, which had presumably been used in attacks against Afghan rebels. The State Department also released photographs showing the skin lesions that afflict yellow-rain victims...