Word: walden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another day in the same theater, Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan), piloting a medevac helicopter, relieves a unit pinned down by a superior Iraqi force. In the course of this operation her craft is downed, and she and her crew fight off enemy attacks all night long. The next morning, though wounded, she stays behind to cover their withdrawal to a rescue chopper and is killed...
...semidisgraced Serling is assigned to the inquiry. Plagued by guilty nightmares about his own conduct and drinking too much as a result, he is soon waist-deep in Rashomon country. For the survivors of the episode tell conflicting stories, some of which hint--hold on for more ironies--that Walden might actually have behaved badly. Or might have been herself victimized by friendly fire...
...dreams of being a doctor. Every weekday she boarded the No. 6 bus in her predominantly black Buffalo, New York, neighborhood for the 50-minute ride to Cheektowaga, a white suburb, where she worked as a cashier at Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips in the glittering, white-marbled Walden Galleria Mall. Often during the day, charter buses would pull into the Galleria parking lot and disgorge shoppers from as far away as Canada. But the city bus wasn't allowed on mall property. Wiggins had to get out 300 yards away on Walden Avenue, a busy seven-lane highway with...
...life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify. --Henry David Thoreau, Walden...
...jumble of thoughts does have a loose coherence. At least we know that Davis says we're in the midst of this apocalypse right now. Too many people meander through life with bad attitudes, and instead they should adopt a little optimism, maybe even study a little Walden...