Word: vietnamize
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...plot is pure wish fulfillment. DJay gets transformed from no-gooder to go-getter by beautiful music (when he's moved to tears by a church choir). Then there's the Rocky factor. That movie, about a bum turned hero, was a happy pill after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. Brewer sees his film as a return to workaday humanity. "We're in a time of tremendous problems in the world, and we've needed to escape to fantasy," he says. "Maybe now we're coming to a time where we need more working-class heroes...
Harvard has long had an arms-length relationship with the military. Military personnel have not lodged on campus since 1969, when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to expel the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) from campus in protest of the Vietnam...
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, who brought more than 200 delegates with him, is the highest-ranking Vietnamese communist official to visit the United States since the Vietnam War ended...
...President Bush welcomed Vietnam's Prime Minister to the White House today. He promised he would travel to Vietnam next year--that is unless his dad can get him out of it." --JAY LENO...
...something to be proud of," says Ron Weisen, whose United Steelworkers of America Local 1397 in Homestead, Pa., was one of the first organizations to receive a Springsteen contribution, almost a year ago. "He worries about the underfed and the underprivileged." Says Robert Muller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America: "We would not exist if it were not for Bruce Springsteen." Back in 1981, when, as Muller says, "nobody wanted to hear about the Viet Nam War," a Springsteen concert raised about $100,000 for the V.V.A. "That was the beginning of Bruce's political involvement," Muller thinks...