Word: warriorism
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...cause of the uproar was the scandal that has been steadily increasing since the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of Greenpeace, the 1.5 million-member environmental protest group, was bombed and sunk on July 10 in the harbor of Auckland, New Zealand, killing a Greenpeace photographer. The ship, which was sunk by two bombs attached to its hull, was about to lead a protest against French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti. The evidence, trumpeted across the country last week by a French press in full cry, strongly suggests that France's secret service, the Direction Generale...
...years ago, to head an official commission of inquiry. As the accusations and conjectures multiplied, Tricot discreetly interviewed Premier Laurent Fabius, Vice Admiral Pierre Lacoste, head of the DGSE, and other high-ranking government and military officials. Tricot's mission is to find out who sank the Rainbow Warrior and who gave the orders to do it. His eagerly awaited report is expected to be issued this week...
...series featuring Mel Gibson as the ever-infuriated Max, pursuing his private vendetta against the forces of evil in the Australian outback. It is the second film in the series that portrays the post-apocalyptic world. Evil, like everything else, has needed time to recover. In The Road Warrior punk-styled roadsters with homicidal tendencies had organized into tribes. In Beyond Thunderdome, evil graduates to cities...
...English, and gained enough U.S. exposure that a Casey Kasem-like voice does not have to be dubbed over his harsh Australian drawl (as was done in the first Made Max). In any case, there is now a layer of wit stacked over The Concept of Hero as Road Warrior...
...soon gets back to his forte of high speed demolition, however. Fans of the Road Warrior will find nothing new here, which is just fine. And though the end of the film is a bit of a cop out, it can't spoil what is surely one the best treats of the summer