Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy from the north and east. The U.S. battalion jumped ashore and set up a position on the south, and another U.S. battalion was helilifted in on the west. Boxed in, the Viet Cong's 502nd Battalion fought with the bitterness of despair. Sometimes neck-deep in water, wallowing in mud, the Vietnamese Marines moved in bunker by bunker, dropping grenades into the Viet Cong firing slits and forcing the Viet Cong in the dikes out into the open, where air support and artillery, when it arrived, could plaster them. The Marines paid dearly for their courage, suffering...
Edlestein's directional gifts, however, are not limited to creating characterizations without actors. He has, in fact, an effective and highly developed personal style. Values are evoked early in the film in association with types of images and varieties of camera movement. Water (in pools, cascades, rivers, oceans) is continually associated with mystery and emotional confusion. It is a barrier, literally separating the characters, or figuratively suggesting their failures of insight. Wire fences, slats, and latticework also recur as a motif of division and isolation. Concrete architectural elements abound in certain sequences, carrying with them an implication of desolation...
...final relay. Harvard coach Bill Brooks put Pete Adams, Dan Thompson, John Bragg, and Bill Shrout on the line against Army's powerful four. Adams and Thompson opened up a lead of one body length which Bragg lost to Army's speedy Jay Williams. Shrout hit the water even with Cadet Heesch. Heesch, like Shrout, had won two freestyle events earlier. But for the relay Heesch was rested while Shrout was still tired from the gruelling 500-yard freestyle, two events before...
Karl Marx was very rude about people like William Morris, the poet, artist-craftsman and social revolutionary. "Christian Socialism," he wrote in the Communist Manifesto, "is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat...
...Welles's film, Kane's sole object is the furniture; in Prince Erie, the finite playing area itself cramps Fisk, and he becomes undisciplined energy trying, I suspect, to break the walls down, also Jersey City, anything that threatens to contain him. "Jersey City is our old bath water," bellows Fisk, "and we don't need it anymore." Blackout...