Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some seniors who attended The Game against Yale Saturday have complained that they were relegated to the worst seats in Soldier Field when they should have had choice views of Harvard's victory...
...biography, a cautious primer for black pride. It is Lee's biggest film, and the least Spikey. At one point in producer Marvin Worth's 26-year hajj to get this movie made, and before he was persuaded that an African American should direct the movie, Norman Jewison (A Soldier's Story) wanted to do it. If Jewison had, the product would be about the same. Only the label would be different...
...door of his helicopter, Alexander Haig, then the White House chief of staff, met with a friend in the shadowy Map Room in the basement of the Mansion. "He will be dead within a year," said Haig of Nixon, having witnessed an emotional wound beyond anything Haig the soldier had seen before...
...thought I knew how to get to IHOP. "Get on Soldier's Field Road and drive, drive," a colleague said. Well the damn road forks. And I took the wrong tine. "I'm sorry I'm late. Stupid woman driver, you know?" I told my interviewee, apologizing for being 40minutes late. "I didn't say that," he said, giving me a puzzled look. Okay. Maybe he passes. It was a test of sorts for the subject of my interview: self-described anti-sexist man Jackson Katz, a former all-state football player who makes his living on the college lecture...
...already decided to run, whatever happened. I pushed the soldier at the back door slightly; three steps was all I needed to jump into the gorge. I landed in a tree, lost my breath completely. My left arm was hurt, and I was bruised all over. There were dead bodies all around me. As I jumped from the tree, a guard fired three bullets at me, and I fell to the ground. "He could have killed you," I heard one guard say to the other, who answered, "I killed him instead." They heaved the next two bodies down by their...