Word: vetting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their fill of pig, they drove home to places called Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbia and Cherokee. Key Underwood said he never dreamed the thing would get this big. "When Troop got down where he couldn't stand up, I couldn't stand his suffering, so I called the vet. Then after he was gone I called the boys, and they said if ever a dog deserved a decent burial, this one did. I was gonna take him out to the dump, but then I said we'd just come out here to the old hunting ground. We all loved these...
...nutshell, the storyline focuses on Detective Sargeant Stanley White (Rourke), a Vietnam Vet-turned policeman propelled by a Ramboesque obsession with the American military failure in Southeast Asia and a steely determination to flush out the undesirable element from what he regards as a cesspool of Sino-American corruption--New York City's Chinatown...
...asking that pregnant, poignant question is none other than John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), the Viet Nam vet who was last seen in First Blood wiping out a small Western town whose citizens did not agree with his views on the historical necessity and moral value of the U.S.'s former involvement in Southeast Asia. Since that gory, not to say psychopathic, episode, Rambo has been keeping fit, courtesy of the penal system, by making little ones out of big ones in a rock quarry. But now at the gate stands his sometime mentor, Colonel Trautman of the Special Forces (Richard...
...plot but only an attempt. A senior police officer violently kills an innocent child during the hostility of the initial drug raid. To avoid dismissal from the force he plants a gun in the hand of his prone victim but his cover-up is witnessed by a rookie. As vet unaccepted by his peers the rookie goes along with the cover story but later struggles with his conscience...
...Coming Home, he became more sympathetic, though in one character he was a cripple, and in another, bitter and troubled and suicidal. The Deer Hunter ended with an elegiac singing of God Bless America in a blue-collar bar in Pennsylvania. In today's story lines, the Viet Nam vet tends to be a self-reliant hero, muscular and handsome--men like Tom Selleck in TV's Magnum, P.I., or the cartooned heroes of The A-Team...