Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOUTHERN COMFORT Directed by Walter Hill Screenplay by Michael Kane Walter Hill and David Giler Hip deep in a Louisiana swamp, the squad of National Guardsmen gets befuddled. According to the map, there shouldn't be a lake around here. But there is, and unless they steal some boats to cross it, they will not reach their objective in time. This they do, which riles the crafts' Cajun owners, whose tempers are not improved when the weekend soldiers fire blanks at them. Indeed, that is all it takes to turn a war game into a deadly game...
...class or go down to the kitchen and steal a box of Grape Nuts.(The Globe has some good movie reviews...
...fair. Said he: "When I think about the Soviet government and its wardens for whom all these fairs are merely another propaganda show, I am all for the boycott, but when I think about the people for whom this is the only opportunity to see, or maybe even to steal, say, the Bible, I cannot be purely pragmatic...
Self-deprecation is often a pre-emptive strike to steal a detractor's thunder. At times, the reader half hopes that Janet Malcolm will tell Green that he is too hard on himself, that he really is an intelligent, sympathetic man who is defending the faith in an age of pill popping and package deals. But she maintains an orthodox silence with rewarding results. Eventually Green's faults and peeves make his good qualities even more believable. Technically, he also serves as a vital navigational point in the author's explorations. She discusses a number of analytic...
...much as soldiers on a front line. The horrible, griding adversity draws the men together as almost nothing else can, leading them to hate the system--both the crooks and the courts--that makes their world the way it is. So the cops live outside the system: sometimes they steal because they are greedy, sometimes because they figure they deserve the money more than some pusher. Sometimes they actively bust heads because they think it works as a deterrent, and sometimes they just ignore everything they see, waiting for the pension 20 years will bring them. Often the job, with...