Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sharks cruised by, grays and makos, and cash floated up from the depths. He saw a $1,000 U.S. bill riding a current, absurdly intact, the slow-motion tumble of a dream that makes no sense. Two hundred twenty-nine people had plunged from the sky in unthinkable terror, instant death their only mercy...
What, ultimately, can be gleaned from Spielberg's depiction of D-Day (which takes up the first half hour of the film) except the terror and remorse that we already know are inherently a part of war? The problem is that Private Ryan is an anti-war movie only by virtue of the bloodiness of its battles, rather than by any ideas it presents. Stunning but obvious, it relies on automatic audience empathy without bringing anything new to the table. This wouldn't be such a problem if Spielberg weren't the man behind the camera. But because he sets...
...taken on. "Right up to the second we shot the scene, I had never, ever sat on a motorbike, and I didn't realize one has to balance," says the 112-lb. or so Kelly. "All worry about the nudity went out the window as the fear, terror and sheer cold crept in," he says. "Even at 35 miles an hour, I thought, 'My God, it's Steve McQueen time...
Maybe we do live in an age of miracles. Here's one: after a 40-year conflict that held the entire world in a state of terror about the possibility of nuclear annihilation, the U.S. and the former Soviet Union reconciled peacefully. And here's another: a commercial American television network has produced a 24-part series about this epoch that is serious, thorough and absorbing. CNN's Cold War, which debuts Sept. 27, serves as an example of documentary television at its best. Watching it, one begins to understand how the stamina of the U.S., the self-deception...
...well suited to TV. As Turner says, "With World War II, you've got panzers, but the cold war was half cerebral." Yet the episodes on nuclear strategy, arms control and diplomacy have moments of great intensity and even humor. Interlocking his fingers to illustrate the mutual grip of terror, Robert McNamara explains deterrence and seems amazed himself at the doctrine's horrifying logic. In the episode on detente, Winston Lord, an aide to Henry Kissinger during the Nixon Administration, describes a summit at which Soviet leaders spend hours hectoring the Americans over Vietnam but then, having created a record...