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...Israeli plan of battle was elegant in its simplicity. A single mailed fist of tanks and armor-borne troops would smash straight up into all the defenses in one concentrated attack. Once the fist had punched through, at whatever terrible cost, reinforcements would pour behind it to spill out in back of the enemy and flank him on his own high ground...
...present. Small wonder that digestive torpor soon sets in. Ustinov's hero is an unknown soldier who is always dying just before his recurringly pregnant wife can give birth. Like Brecht, Ustinov appears to believe that war is a continuation of the class struggle. The mighty spill the blood of the lowly in a kind of cruel game, a black farce. It is a question whether Ustinov's lines supply comic relief or comic sabotage to his theme. Says a general: "I sense a trap." Replies an archbishop: "That's unusual for a military...
Inside are 10,000 followers of Mammon: unworking men, grandpas, stiletto-heeled tooties, indescribables, a sprinkling of M.I.T. professors. They mill around the closed-circuit TVs. The long rows of betting windows, the hot dog and beer stands. They spill out to the open-air section by the track, concentrating most heavily by the finish wire. They wander back and forth eating popcorn, clutching the long "green"--scarecrows stuffed with money instead of straw...
Jewels & Diaries. As Hitler's armies first spill across the Continent, Nicolson despairs for Britain, certain that the war cannot be won. Opposed to Chamberlain's appeasement, he describes one of the Prime Minister's speeches during which "Winston Churchill sat hunched beside him looking like the Chinese god of plenty suffering from acute indigestion." Even when Churchill becomes Prime Minister, Britain continues to suffer defeat after defeat. But, like the nation, Nicolson's spirits are somehow altered by the leadership of the man whom he admires more than anyone in the world. More than once...
...hostile white men, the avengers finally descend on the villains' "war wagon," an armor-plated, heavily guarded stage full of gold dust. With the help of the nitroglycerin and a band of Kiowas, the villains are killed, the wagon pillaged-and the loot lost when runaway horses spill barrels of it over the landscape. At film's end, Wayne salvages sacks worth $100,000 -enough, presumably, to keep him going until his next western...