Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christopher Columbus, a TV mini-series to be aired next season, she found that "very little had been written about her." Dunaway did finally turn up a few things, including the fact that Columbus' historic voyage was delayed because "Isabella was fighting the Moors. She was a warrior queen. She actually got out there and fought in full armor." So, naturally, Dunaway followed suit. "It was awfully awkward," she says, though the actress had it easier than Isabella. "My armor was not so heavy, because it was aluminum...
...reporters beforehand, and during the speech. Clark was somewhat patient, somewhat ironical: now fingering a Marlboro, now complaining of the television light. An old warrior returned...
...business, incidental eccentricities to fill a Bruegel painting or the panel of an old Mad magazine. And throughout are references to or quotations from Dante's favorite movies: The Searchers, Close Encounters, The Wizard of Oz, To Please a Lady, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Orpheus, The Road Warrior, It's a Wonderful Life, animated cartoons by Warners Old Masters Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, the complete works of Roger Corman. You have to be sharp to catch some of the references. At a meeting of gadgeteers, Billy's dad chats with Robby the Robot of Forbidden...
...that his Chinese hosts really were catching the "free-market spirit." So optimistic was he about the prospects for friendship and trade that in one ad lib he referred to the People's Republic as "socalled Communist China," a remarkably benign description coming from a once unrelenting cold warrior who used to call the P.R.C. "Red China." The turnabout is perhaps more Reagan's than China's, but there was little doubt that the governments of both nations have, in Reagan's words, "reached a new level of understanding...
...Truman's comment suggests, most of them were thought up long ago by others. None is as hoary as Hart's belief that U.S. land forces must learn maneuver warfare, a concept rooted in the thought of Sun Zi 2,000 years ago. The Chinese warrior wrote that successful offensives should be like streams rushing down mountains, seeking the paths of least resistance, flowing around obstacles instead of trying to go through or over them. Hart has consulted the fusty volumes of strategists like Germany's General Karl von Clausewitz and America's Admiral Alfred Thayer...