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Word: vietnam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...male equivalent of childbirth ...the experience seemed to resemble spiritual enlightenment or sexual eroticism: indeed, slaughter could be likened to an orgasmic, charismatic experience." She supports her position with letters, memoirs, reports and diaries from Australian, American and British soldiers documenting their experiences in both World Wars and Vietnam...

Author: By Emily SUMMER Dill, | Title: Intimate But Incomplete Look at Killing | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...during Vietnam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Minutes | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...lower expectations? I suspect the latter. John McCain's I-tell-it-like-it-is demeanor is compelling, but Senate colleagues think he's hiding his red-faced temper. Gore has explicitly said he's "throwing away" his prepared text. To broadcast his soul searching, he has released his Vietnam letters. His campaign has even leaked Gore's handwritten text of an ad to show he's not consultant driven. For his part, Bill Bradley wants to radiate authenticity. Each time he takes to the podium, reading glasses perched halfway down his nose, he's tacitly shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Search for Authenticity | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...viewer must remember that Renoir filmed this before concentration camps and Vietnam POW camps, when war had a distinct code of morality and enemy soldiers had a distant respect for each other's bravery...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Allusion, Delusion in Grand Illusion | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...smooth talking paramedic who has a soft spot for gin and prostitutes and a talent for preaching. Then watch as he, cradling the receiver, slips his voice into something more comfortable and makes sweet love to the dispatcher (voiced by Queen Latifah). The other medic is ex-marine Vietnam vet Tom Walls (Tom Sizemore). He's a scary thing to unleash on the streets, a sort of manic vigilante with his own laws of humanity. It's a chilling performance, and Sizemore also shows off his talent at smashing things...

Author: By Angela M. Hur, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Not Quite Dead Yet : Trading ambulances for taxis and Cage for DeNiro, Scorsese returns to form. | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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