Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with spending still near cold war levels) that the number of warriors in U.S. fighting forces--Army maneuver battalions, Navy ships and Air Force planes--has dropped nearly half over the past decade. And some surviving units, according to audits earlier this year, are "ghost squads," without a single soldier assigned to them...
...Barry Pepper (the born-again sharpshooter), and an attention to history that is emotionally edifying and alive. Still, the connecting material by which Robert Rodat's script moves from the opening battle sequence to the last is less than wholly compelling, and the framing device of the ex-soldier in the cemetery is maudlin and cumbersome; Spielberg hasn't gotten an ending right in at least ten years. As I said, disputation seems insolent in the case of this film, but in this mediocre summer, even the best films bore compromises that were hard to ignore. Nicholas K. Davis...
...SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER An eccentric American family in Paris: Kris Kristofferson stars for director James Ivory...
...gangsta world: Master P's current solo album sold more than 400,000 copies in its first week out; at the upcoming MTV Music Video Awards, he'll be a featured act. So Snoop has allied himself with No Limit, declaring himself a "No Limit soldier," sharing in Master P's heat, his street cred. When Snoop's new CD, Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told, comes out on Aug. 4, it's expected to be a huge seller. "There was no other choice but to be there [on No Limit]," says Snoop. "[Other labels] couldn...
...First Blood," John Rambo is finally lured out of the woods by his former commander. Now, the man who partly inspired the "Rambo" character hopes to do the same for fugitive accused bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. Retired Green Beret colonel James "Bo" Gritz, the most decorated soldier in American history and a leader of the right-wing "patriot" movement, plans to enter the backwoods of Macon County, N.C., on August 15, hoping to bring Rudolph in safely...