Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...millionaire, the soldier, the vagabond and the poet all have other ways of judging their value. Says Science-Fiction Soothsayer Isaac Asimov: "Robots will leave to human beings the tasks that...
...director also breaks down the one-to-one relationship between killer and killed. In a terrific battle scene, Kurosawa doesn't even show a gun going off--shots from the dark pick off one soldier after another, and the soundtrack is filled with clinking spears and screams. In the final battle we see volley after volley of an immense line of rifles, and we hear men shrieking, horses whinnying and bodies falling, but only after the last shot is fired does Kurosawa cut to the battlefield itself. Then he gives us, in slow motion with hollow trumpets ironically restating...
...once, everybody seemed to be doing imitations. "I became suddenly a star seen in the third person, even to myself," she said. "It didn't frighten me. I got fun out of being a legend and an institution." During World War II, her name was on every soldier's lips, and inflatable chest life preservers were known as Mae Wests...
Despite the puddles that covered Soldier's Field, the yardlings clinched a perfect 4-0 Ivy League record with touchdown runs of 55 and 18 yards, and TD aerial spanning 27 yards, a fourth-quarter goal-line stand, and two interceptions. The Elis showed little both offensively and defensively...
...former soldier, Teng once wanted to become a factory worker so that he could earn a steady urban wage. But now he is enthusiastic about his prospects on the farm. "I have many things already," he says. "A bicycle, a watch. We have a sewing machine. At the end of this year, I will first return the money I borrowed from the brigade. My goal next year? To buy a television set. It will cost 400 yuan [$280]. After that our income will grow, and life will keep on getting better...