Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans, obsessed today with the image of a soldier's pale body dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, will find the power struggle in Russia a bigger worry in the long run. After the U.S. is out of Somalia, Yeltsin's foes will still be everywhere in Russia. The atavistic forces may have lost last week, but they will reorganize and wait for another opportunity...
Harvard Film Archive. "Lyrical Nitrate/Bruce Conner Films" at 7 p.m. "Lyrical Nitrate" is a tribute to early cinema, constructed from color tinted and toned nitrate films found deteriorating in the attic of an Amsterdam theatre. "Garden of Scorpions" at 9 p.m. "Garden of Scorpions" is the story of a soldier, who, through love, becomes a capitalist tool. $5 for students. Carpenter Center...
...storyline of the generic 50s romance involves the love of a soldier and the evils of infiltrating capitalist spies. It unfolds as the screen switches from the storyline to footage from old Soviet films (such as musical performances) to shots of animals in a desert to shots of such natural wonders as volcanoes and snowdrifts to surreal images of a man with huge wings trying to fly. Moving back and forth between these disparate elements, the film nonetheless holds together convincingly...
...first love of the soldier and the woman of the village keeps the emotional intensity high throughout, while the rarely shown documentary footage is gripping because of its historical significance...
...past half-century have journalists had anything to be pretentious about. Some of the great names of American writing cut their teeth in the press -- Edgar Allan Poe and Ernest Hemingway. But until well into this century, most reporters fit the Duke of Wellington's description of the English soldier -- "the scum of the earth." They were lively but ignorant, and often venal. The spread of college education affected even them, however, until by now all journalists know something, though perhaps less than everything. With skills came pride. Journalists no longer submit to having their take on reality circumscribed...