Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place. Director Rademakers is both a careful craftsman and a careful moralist, a man who has the time to pause over the ambiguous nuances of human behavior under pressure and the skill as a filmmaker to exploit them. No fictional film of recent years has more successfully explored the terrain around that crossroad where personal history and megahistory intersect. None has more persuasively placed us inside the skin of man caught in its conflicting, unpoliced traffic...
...have amassed at least 200,000 soldiers. Since beginning its offensive in December, the Iranian army has made small gains south of Fish Lake, a 120- sq.-mi. area flooded by the Iraqis as a defensive barrier. Iran has also made incremental progress southeast of Basra in the marshy terrain along the Shatt al Arab, a strategic waterway that affords access to the Persian Gulf. The new toehold has enabled the Iranians to bombard Basra from closer range...
...live just north of San Diego, in the area Miss Grossman describes, but I must say that I have not seen the "huge mansions surrounded by acres of rocky terrain" she frequented on her vacation. Apparently, everyone Miss Grossman spoke to had a Mexican maid and gardener. But after living in San Diego for 10 years I know only one family with a Mexican servant, and this family lives in Boston...
...cultures; there were green lieutenants. Stone / wanted to clean out the festering part of the wound. The next Viet Nam movie may be the one that tells the whole truth: that we were the best-equipped, best-trained army ever fielded, but against a dedicated foe in an impossible terrain. It was a state-of-the-art war on both sides. But Platoon is a new statement about Viet Nam veterans. Before, we were either objects of pity or objects that had to be defused to keep us at a distance. Platoon makes us real. The Viet Nam Memorial...
...after all, one of the peculiar aspects of senility that it tends to derail the brain into the trackless waste of childhood reminiscence. Allen wanders through such barren terrain in Radio Days, a series of vignettes drawn from his boyhood during the glory days of radio. Time progresses, but to no discernible end. While the vignettes are not quite incomprehensible, they certainly are not laden with meaning, either. Kind of like Reader's Digest...