Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What he is doing, of course, is playing cold warrior. He cares little whether the men and women in Poland have enough meat to eat at night, whether or not they breathe dangerous chemicals on the job, whether or not they live with some measure of pride. Reagan does hope very much that they can beat down his rivals, the communists, for that would be good for Ronald Reagan, and good for business. But his support of capitalism and his opposition to communism are obviously not predicated on support for common people's happiness; that is something he and others...
Reserve and National Guard units are supposed to play an important role supporting regular troops, which would take heavy casualties in the early days of a conventional war fought with modern weapons. Most weekend-warrior units are not only undermanned, but their equipment is often so crude as to make training exercises a joke. Example: National Guardsmen use ancient radio equipment that still has 1950s-era vacuum tubes. If ordered to Europe, as they would be in case a war broke out, they literally could not talk to the regular Army units they supposedly would fight beside...
...flying to Harvard for my freshman year, he was on a ship steaming for Viet Nam." Atlanta Correspondent Anne Constable, who demonstrated against the war as a student at Simmons College, was struck by "how antiwar politics had prevented me and my generation from separating the war from the warrior. I hope we can finally welcome them home...
Hell he is right. In the photographs, one of the women models is smiling ridiculously to a Masai warrior. She looks vaguely surreal here, like an orange tree might, or perhaps a Scandinavian child. She seems to be saying something to them,though doubtless she doesn't know the language. Just as doubtless, the Masai warriors don't know what is going on. She seems to be saying: "Beauty is only skin deep... But then again...
...must remind oneself that human beings-actors, actually-are also involved in the enterprise. Carole Bouquet (23, long dark hair, Aegean-blue eyes, lissome frame) is the love interest, and more: a warrior goddess who saves Bond's life at least as often as he saves hers, and a welcome addition to this summer's gallery of can-do heroines. Topol, as the wily Greek smuggler Columbo, should be in the "Guinness Book of Word Wreckers"; he is perhaps the first performer to demonstrate the art of overacting by chewing pistachio nuts...