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...equipment rained on them by the U.S. Nor did they show any great mastery of the battlefield discipline necessary to repel a hypothetical Corinthian advance. The 528 Honduran paratroopers dropped into the war-game zone, for example, spent two full hours attempting to regroup into companies. When one trooper was slightly injured during a faulty jump, other members of his battalion stood idly by rather than carrying him off for medical aid. In public, U.S. military officers had only good things to say about the doleful Honduran performance. But a ranking U.S. officer admitted: "They have a very long...
...expanded to a two-acter, Eddie's love for his niece possessed shock effect. Incest isn't what it used to be. Furthermore, one doubts whether the current flood of illegal ah'ens cowers before an immigration official as if he had sounded a storm trooper's knock in the night...
...when Reynolds trades in his speedboats 'n'-shotguns for those Modern Relationships with Jill Clayburgh and company that his cuteness undermines him. His easygoing charm works fine when crashing through state trooper roadblocks, but in the already cute genre of romantic comedy, it becomes superfluous and cloying. And with the addition of Goldie Hawn's aggressive cuddlyness. Best Friends is positively overloaded...
...across the road to the home of John and Lillian Herr to store several boxes of cauliflower in a freezer in their garage. When she did not return, her sister became alarmed and notified neighbors, who called the police. After a three-hour search of the neighborhood, a state trooper found Huyard's partly nude body under a blanket in the bed room of the Herrs' adopted son Jimmy. Bound and gagged, the 90-lb. woman had been suffocated and stabbed 16 times...
...hopelessness and a desire to die. These songs are more directly personal, and the souls bared are badly damaged. Every one of the album's 10 cuts is chilling: two characters face electrocution for murders; there are two other shootings; another character seeks to elude a state trooper; four of his men are out of work. But the songs engross rather than repel because of their sincerity and severity...