Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC IS about the Rennaissance poet, playwright, soldier and all-around wit who was afflicted with a huge you-know-what. In love with his cousin Roxanne, Cyrano ends up aiding his rival Christian in winning her affections by supplying the good-looking but vacant boy with his specially crafted sweet nothings...
...there any sense that the war against terrorism was being won on the ground. At week's end a bomb went off in a West Berlin nightclub, killing an American soldier and a West German woman and injuring more than 150 people. Responsibility was claimed by the Holger Meins Commando, which is linked to the Red Army Faction and had previously asserted that it was responsible for the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in Stockholm in February...
...experienced all those things in her seven months in Nicaragua. She has followed the war by accompanying army troops on patrol, wading rivers and riding horseback into remote areas. Sharing the soldiers' lot, Lopez has slept on the ground, in the back of an East German military truck and in insect- infested peasant huts. "Most recently," she says, "I stayed in a hotel with walls so thin you could see through them. That didn't bother the bats, which squeaked and dive-bombed my cot from the rafters all night long." Other TIME correspondents and editors have reported on Nicaragua...
...another, they are all political. Even the love song In the Shape of a Heart--one of Browne's most beautiful ballads--seems to balance off the weight of a lost affair against the kind of specific moral gravity that can come only from some deeper social commitment. Soldier of Plenty and the title track make glancing observations ("People die for the little things/ A little corn, a little beans") and ask some pointed questions: "I want to know who the men in the shadows are/ I want to hear somebody asking them why/ They can be counted...
...deadpan Wendt. Armed with a harpoon gun and wearing goggles, Harold and Katt, himself clad in army greens and jump boots, approach the evil closet. However, in the process of hunting monsters, Katt is pulled through the door and carried back to Vietnam where he discovers that a dead soldier buddy of his has been the root of all his residential difficulties. (I swear. This is for real.) All turns out well, amazingly enough, and the flick winds up with a Rebecca-style-house-burning ending...