Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soldier, Ramos has spent a lifetime sizing up situations quickly and subordinating himself and his men to the task of working to best advantage within unforgiving constraints. That background may not lend itself to flights of rhetoric or legislative imagination, but the fractious Philippines could do worse than to agree on a set of priorities and settle down to the tedious task of putting the country back on its feet...
Eventually, a sense of duty overcame his loveof a joke, and he became more serious aboutanswering such questions. "Anyone who asked, Iwould sit them down and talk until they said,'Please Anton, let me go," Quist says. "Peoplethink that everyone in Africa is either fightingas rebel soldier or starving. 'That's all that yousee in the media. I realized that the myths aboutAfrica were a result of a lack of information...
...witty dialogue of nuclear disarmament, A Walk in the Woods. But in LAKE STREET EXTENSION, at the Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati, the characters are feral, the action grim and the vocabulary redolent of the ! gutter. Lake Street sets a father who sexually molested his son against a Salvadoran soldier who joined in the mass murder of peasants. The 90 taut minutes strip away layers of secrets and suggest a link between the men's sins -- a dependence on the propensity of bourgeois Americans to look away from ugly facts rather than decry them. A compulsively watchable young actor, Keith Brush...
Powell is still a long way from trading in his green Army cap for a blue beret, but he is no Globocop either. It is encouraging that the American soldier who is most willing to work the U.N. into the Pentagon's plans is also the highest ranking...
According to Kiernan, part of this education was conveying "the monotony of nothingness" experienced by the average infantry soldier. "It's not all like the movies, and the media now understands this," he said...