Word: spined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born on the Fourth of July is the true story of Ron Kovic, a kid from Long Island, N.Y., who got his spine shattered in Viet Nam. Back home he became bitter, questioning his old values of family and patriotism, before convincing himself he could best serve his country as a squad leader in the war against the war. This morality play could be a turnoff if it weren't for Cruise's presence. Says Tom Pollock, head of Universal Pictures, the film's patron: "Tom Cruise is all America's all-American boy. The film's journey is more...
...give a stong spine, a roulette wheel and dice...
...that every kind of grief has been presented to the camera from every angle, pictures of misery remind us of other pictures of misery. Then, unexpectedly, comes a scene of one man blocking a line of tanks in Beijing, and once again a photograph sends shivers down the spine...
...hospital pathologist who performed the autopsy judged the slim, athletically built victim to be in her 20s and said she had been dead three weeks. A few days later, medical examiner Michael Baden autopsied the body and came to a startlingly different conclusion. Bone spurs on the woman's spine and her atrophied ovaries revealed that she was about 55 years old, and microscopic study of the algae indicated that the body had been in the water at least 1 1/2 years...
Price, today a paraplegic from cancer of the spine, cites Freud's comment that the most important day of a man's life is the day his father dies. It may have been the day that Reynolds Price truly became the writer he hoped...