Word: watchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold eye, war is an aleatory art in which values are as random as bullets. A military band plays an exhilarating march; a moment later the tune is whistled by a doomed man. A woman is run, naked, through a line of whippers; her lover, unable to watch, jumps to his death. Other prisoners follow his example like an audience seeking exits during a fire. "Let's have order here," decrees the commandant, a connoisseur of chaos and a predecessor of the concentration-camp officers who would one day perform the same tasks with greater efficiency...
...need for at least one more full-time coach, but until there's some more money, this is clearly impossible. The situation is so bad that the team has about three lacrosse balls. This is not as it should be, even if one only considers that more people go watch the lacrosse game than any other spring sport...
About the only reason to see Kenner is to watch Jim Brown. The rest of the film is so awful that it makes an average TV series look like Citizen Kane. Brown, who has taken more punishment from his movie roles than he ever did on the gridiron, continues to give promise of becoming a commanding screen personality. All he seems to need is practice, and that is just about all that Kenner gives...
...Alaska Range each morning, their bodies would drift into effortless ax-swinging--a muscular rhythm now as familiar as walking. When the helicopter failed to meet them on time after a day's work, they would sit on a mountainside covered with blueberries and eat the fruit or watch the huge black bears roaming in the distance...
...night they would watch flocks of long-legged cranes fly over the isolated valleys or the aurora borealis fill half the sky with a light show...