Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soldier, poet and singer, with a whimsically ironic acceptance of his fate, Breaker approaches the dimensions of a Renaissance grunt. If the film that bears his name is perhaps a bit too much cut on the square, if its technique does not quite match its fine eye for moral distinctions, it is nonetheless another distinctive achievement from the fast-rising Australian film industry. -By Richard Schickel
...Veteran Action Director Samuel Fuller's elegy to a genre he loves (war movies) and a life he lived (as a young soldier in a famous World War II division). Tough, sentimental, definitive...
...outgoing gladhander who exudes an easy charm and tosses off aphorisms in at least four languages. Their public antagonism dates back to the aftermath of the 1973 Middle East war, when the two emerged as the most promising of a new generation of Israeli leaders. A career soldier for 27 years, Rabin was a former chief of staff who had made his mark with patient staff planning; he enjoyed the support of the Labor Party's broad, centrist faction. Peres, a political activist since the age of 16, was a precocious, widely traveled administrator who had been named director...
...simply by placing the three singers on a dark stage instead of at the front of a concert hall. The performance of the songs by Robert Honeysucker, David Ripley and Kim Scown is remarkably emotional for such somber music, and Honeysucker especially in the "Second Report on the Unknown Soldier" creates an affecting vocal performance with no need of a set of other theatrical assistance...
...there is hope. A surprisingly small number of war toys litter the shelves, and they tend toward acute realism. One group of "play action figures" includes a soldier with a geiger counter, presumably for mopping up after a tactical warhead explodes nearby. The collection also includes a small flag (American...