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...they die. It is a gruesome portrait of war, more horrible than the intellectualized horror of Apocalypse Now and more realistic than The Deer Hunter's chamber-spinning metaphor for horror. It more closely resembles Stanley Kubrick's evocation of the butchering sen-selessness of trench warfare in his anti-war film, Paths of Glory...
...Trench warfare was ghastly enough to make any of its freezing, frightened participants yearn for almost any kind of escape. As for those who were restricted to England for the duration, the climate, which had once seemed a mild test of pluck and heartiness, began to seem intolerable. What Fussell calls the "I Hate It Here" syndrome became rampant, particularly among writers, malcontents at the best of tunes. When getting away finally became possible again, many left seeking not just adventure but permanent exile...
PETER SELLERS died after his ninth heart attack. Even cats have only nine lives, and cats aren't funny. Cats don't know how to wear trench-coats and perky little fedoras and speak English with a horrendously bad French accent. Come to think of it, cats don't know how to speak English...
...nearly three weeks, the slight, intense figure in the rumpled trench coat campaigned across Wisconsin at dairy farms and bowling alleys, in workingmen's bars and suburban living rooms. "My campaign," Jerry Brown expounded to a throng of supporters in Madison's Cardinal Bar, "is on the edge, the existential edge...
...would increase an already severe water shortage. In addition, Matheson claimed, the invasion of the construction crews would change forever what he called "the chosen way of life" of people in the region's tiny rural communities. Beyond their plea to Congress, the Governors plan to wage a trench-by-trench defense against the MX by showing that the project would violate provisions of the National Environmental Policy...