Word: soldierism
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...younger brother of Gunsmoke star James Arness, Graves arrived in Hollywood by 1950 and got his first important role, as the all-American soldier who turns out to be a German spy in Billy Wilder's 1953 war comedy Stalag 17. The film provided an early view of Graves' ability to play both a hero type and its own internal contradiction. Throughout the '50s he alternated supporting parts in big films (The Night of the Hunter, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell) with leads in It Conquered the World and other sci-fi anticlassics ripe for later mockery on Mystery...
...Queen Elizabeth is working through British conglomerates to regain control of the colonies -- witness the purchase of Burger King and Holiday Inn by British companies. There is also rumored to be a global conspiracy to implant newborn babies with microchips. Robert Brown, editor and publisher of Soldier of Fortune, a must-read for many gun advocates and survivalists, has tracked some of these wacky conspiracies and discounted them, including one much vaunted black helicopter sighting. But that hasn't quieted the patriot grapevine. "It's all bull. But they don't want reasonable explanations," he says, "because they...
...franchise's hero, Jason Bourne, into the toxic reality of Iraq. Like The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, this new collaboration rubs the nose of a fantasy plot into the gritty soil of political intrigue. Roy Miller, the Army chief warrant officer played by Damon, is a good soldier who realizes that his mission - to unearth the weapons of mass destruction the Bush Administration used as a rationale for invading Iraq - is bogus. Now, dammit, he'll find what's behind that ruse, even if his life is threatened by renegade Baathists and the American high command. Soon...
...council member who had served as a Member of Parliament under the ruling National Democratic Party, said he knew of "more than 50" Sinai Bedouin who were serving in the police or army. But when asked to name one, he couldn't. And when asked to provide a Bedouin soldier's telephone number, he provided his own - a fact that proved embarrassing a moment later when the reporter called...
...Surrendered” interweaves the lives of three characters across time and space in the middle of the 20th century. The novel tells the story of an American soldier, a Korean refugee, and the wife of a missionary, and the way in which their lives are connected by love, war, and history...