Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Meatballs. Bill Murray of Saturday Night Live, meet Harold Ramis, John Candy, Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas of SCTV. Psycho from Taxi Driver, meet martial music from 1941. Tired moviegoer, meet tired moviemakers. And note: Murray, he of the choirboy face and pseudo-hip slouch, is convincing as a soldier who maneuvers his platoon into and out of World War III. Director Ivan Reitman is a canny merchant. He knows that the easy laughs are the surest, that teen-agers love to watch goofballs shape up without losing their shambling style, and that it doesn't hurt business...
...fact, Gritz was an almost legendary Special Forces combat soldier. There is probably no one in America more qualified than Gritz to undertake the kind of mission the P.O.W. families had in mind...
Flying wings and flying boats. A car chase and a barroom brawl. Abduction by submarine. Supernatural forces. A brainy professor who turns into a roguish soldier of fortune between semesters. A heroine who talks tough, loves hard and punches with either hand. A traitorous monkey-yes, a treacherous little bundle of chattering fur who constantly betrays the good guys until he is dispatched by a poisoned date, not a minute too soon...
Further questions have also been raised about Donovan's relationship with William Masselli, who has been described by the FBI as an alleged Mafia "soldier." Masselli is president of Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp., which was a subcontractor for Schiavone. At Donovan's confirmation hearings, the FBI mentioned his alleged connections with Masselli, but shed little light on them. "I do not have any background whatsoever on him," Executive Assistant FBI Director Francis Mullen told the Senate committee. He added that there was "no reference" to Donovan in FBI wiretaps used to monitor organized crime...
...Michael J. O'Neill of the New York Daily News. O'Neill then had to get rid of one of his flashiest young columnists, Michael Daly. Like Janet Cooke of the Post, with her nonexistent eight-year-old dope addict, Daly lengthily quoted by name an English soldier in Belfast who turned out not to exist. The point should be well made by now: it may sometimes be necessary to use a fictitious name to protect an endangered source, but the source should be real and the right name known to the editor. Editors should be particularly suspicious...